Lecture 3: Exceptions

Question 1

What are exceptions?

Answer 1

Things that go wrong within our coding (Errors)

Question 2

What are Runtime Errors? and when do we use them?

Answer 2

an error that occurs while the program is running after being successfully compiled, commonly called “bugs” and are often found during the debugging process before the software is released.

Question 3

3 types of errors and their definition?

Answer 3

-SyntaxError: you wrote something wrong in the code
-ValueError: the user gave you a sort of “unwanted” type of value–> ex: give you a number when you actually wanted a text
-NameError: when a local or global name is not found

Question 4

We use both: try and except as?

Answer 4

ways of testing out user input before something goes wrong

and we can also use else with them

Question 5

There are 2 main ways to print a varible next to a text which are?

Answer 5

print (“X is “ , x)
print (f “X is “ {x})
#f string

Question 6

in terms of creating our own functions, we replace print with?

Answer 6

return

Question 7

in terms of loops, return has 2 jobs?

Answer 7

break you out of a loop and return a value.

Question 8

pass is? and when do we use it?

Answer 8

a null statement (does nothing) we generally use it as a placeholder.