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Python

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In try and except, Will i always need to know every time that what type of error will cause program to crash?

Examples: except ValueError except TypeError except IndexError

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,657 Points

You can also catch generic errors.

If you don't provide an error type to except, it will catch any kind of error. But without knowing what happened, it might be difficult to recover from the error in a way that would allow your program to continue functioning. But this could be useful if the operations covered by the "try" are optional and the results aren't actually required.