Thinking of where our program might go wrong is never ending. However, there are situations where you can predict the most common types of errors and plan for their occurrence. In this post we will learn how to test for specific error exceptions in Python. Different types of errors As part of this series of tutorials (1, 2), we have

In the last post, we learned to use an if test to detect an error that could occur when a user runs our program. A more modern and flexible way of handling errors is to try to execute a statement, and if something goes wrong, jump to a specific set of statements to deal with the error, or at least

Errors are a part of life. Thus, it makes sense to plan for them and minimize their impact. A computer program that has an unwanted behaviour is said to have a “bug”. These types of errors should be fixed before the code is used and shared with others. Other types of errors cannot be avoided, but the clever coder can