Python’s raise: Effectively Raising Exceptions in Your Code
In your Python journey, you’ll come across situations where you need to signal that something is going wrong in your code. For example, maybe a file doesn’t exist, a network or database connection fails, or your code gets invalid input. A common approach to tackle these issues is to raise an exception, notifying the user that an error has occurred. That’s what Python’s raise statement is for.
Learning about the raise statement allows you to effectively handle errors and exceptional situations in your code. This way, you’ll develop more robust programs and higher-quality code.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:
- Raise exceptions in Python using the
raisestatement - Decide which exceptions to raise and when to raise them