Outline for February 20, 2019

Due: Homework 3, due February 22, 2019 — note extension


  1. Common exceptions
    1. ZeroDivisionError — attempt to divide (or take the remainder of) something by 0
    2. TypeError — operation or function applied to operand of wrong type
    3. SyntaxError — Python parser encountered a malformed statement
    4. NameError — local or global name is not found
    5. ValueError — built-in function or operation applied to operator with illegal value
    6. EOFError — input function encounters an end of file
    7. RecursionError — recursive function recursed too deeply
    8. KeyError — key does not exist in dictionary
    9. IndexError — no item with that index in list
    10. Keyboard Interrupt — user hit the interrupt key (usually control-C)
  2. Handling exceptions
    1. except [except0.py]
    2. except exceptcode [except1.py]
    3. else [except2.py]
    4. except exceptcode as msgvar [except3.py]
    5. finally [except4.py]
    6. Exceptions in a function: who handles them? [except5.py, except6.py]
    7. Using global variables as error flags [except6a.py]
    8. raise exceptcode message [except7.py]
  3. Online Python documentation
  4. JSON [jsoon-ex.py]
    1. What it is
    2. json.loads
    3. json.dumps

Matt Bishop
Department of Computer Science
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA 95616-8562 USA
Last modified: Version of February 13, 2019 at 8:37PM
Winter Quarter 2019
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