Lecture 12: November 7, 2019

Reading: §3.7, 7.7
Due: Homework 3, due on November 8 at 11:59pm

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. 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]

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MHI 289I, Programming in Health Informatics Version of November 11, 2019 at 10:10AM

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