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Posted September 26, 2014 6:44pm by

Try and Except

My question regarding the "Try and Except" clause is that when is a good time to actually use this clause - Like, the "If/Else" is used when a condition is True or False...which is perfectly understandable, it makes sense. However, the "Try/Except" clause I don't quite understand when to use as the "If/Else" can accomplish whatever "Try/Else" task is anyway.

September 26, 2014 7:44pm

Here's a very informative StackOverFlow post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16138232/is-it-a-good-practice-to-use-try-except-else-in-python

Hope that helps

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September 27, 2014 6:08pm

try and except are for when things can go wrong. if and else are just flow control constructs.

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