100 Days of DevOps — Day 90- Try and Except Statement Python

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Welcome to Day 90 of 100 Days of DevOps, Focus for today is Try and Except Statement Python

Getting an error or exception in python program means the entire program will crash but in real world situation we don’t want this to happen instead we want the program to detect these type of error/exception and continue to run.

def divideby(num):
   return 10/num
print(divideby(10))
print(divideby(0))

Output

The computer doesn’t know how to handle divide by zero and Python throws the error/program crash

1.0
 print(divideby(0))
 File “/Users/plakhera/medium_python/firstprogram.py”, line 2, in divideby
 return 10/num
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

Now let’s use try and except

def divideby(num):
   try:
      return 10 / num
   except:
      print("Divide by zero error")
print(divideby(10))
print(divideby(0))

So the moment it hits Divide by zero error, code moves to except block and that prevent the program from crashing

Output

1.0
Divide by zero error
None

Now let’s take a look at other pieces of code

def convert(num):
 x = int(num)
 return x
from loggingcode import convert
convert(1)
 1
convert(‘1’)
 1
# Now if we try to convert something which int can't convert we received a traceback as int dont know how to convert string
convert(‘hello’)
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py”, line 2881, in run_code
 exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
 File “<ipython-input-6–891f5d73f0fd>”, line 1, in <module>
 convert(‘hello’)
 File “/Users/plakhera/Downloads/salesforce-spring-2017/loggingcode.py”, line 3, in convert
 x = int(num)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ‘hello’

NOTE: Here ValueError is the type of exception object

Now let’s try to re-write this code and use try/except block so that we can handle

>>> def convert(num):
… try:
… x = int(num)
… return x
… except ValueError:
… print(“Please enter a valid number”)
…
>>> convert(3)
3
>>> convert(“3”)
3
>>> convert(“three”)
Please enter a valid number

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Reference

100 Days of DevOps — Day 0

100 Days of DevOps — Day 89-Python Files I/O