Python Built-in Exceptions

Question 1

ArithmeticError

Answer 1

Raised when an error occurs in numeric calculations

Question 2

AssertionError

Answer 2

Raised when an assert statement fails

Question 3

AttributeError

Answer 3

Raised when attribute reference or assignment fails

Question 4

Exception

Answer 4

Base class for all exceptions

Question 5

EOFError

Answer 5

Raised when the input() method hits an “end of file” condition (EOF)

Question 6

FloatingPointError

Answer 6

Raised when a floating point calculation fails

Question 7

GeneratorExit

Answer 7

Raised when a generator is closed (with the close() method)

Question 8

ImportError

Answer 8

Raised when an imported module does not exist

Question 9

IndentationError

Answer 9

Raised when indentation is not correct

Question 10

IndexError

Answer 10

Raised when an index of a sequence does not exist

Question 11

KeyError

Answer 11

Raised when a key does not exist in a dictionary

Question 12

KeyboardInterrupt

Answer 12

Raised when the user presses Ctrl+c, Ctrl+z or Delete

Question 13

LookupError

Answer 13

Raised when errors raised cant be found

Question 14

MemoryError

Answer 14

Raised when a program runs out of memory

Question 15

NameError

Answer 15

Raised when a variable does not exist

Question 16

NotImplementedError

Answer 16

Raised when an abstract method requires an inherited class to override the method

Question 17

OSError

Answer 17

Raised when a system related operation causes an error

Question 18

OverflowError

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Raised when the result of a numeric calculation is too large

Question 19

ReferenceError

Answer 19

Raised when a weak reference object does not exist

Question 20

RuntimeError

Answer 20

Raised when an error occurs that do not belong to any specific exceptions

Question 21

StopIteration

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Raised when the next() method of an iterator has no further values

Question 22

SyntaxError

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Raised when a syntax error occurs

Question 23

TabError

Answer 23

Raised when indentation consists of tabs or spaces

Question 24

SystemError

Answer 24

Raised when a system error occurs

Question 25

SystemExit

Answer 25

Raised when the sys.exit() function is called

Question 26

TypeError

Answer 26

Raised when two different types are combined

Question 27

UnboundLocalError

Answer 27

Raised when a local variable is referenced before assignment

Question 28

UnicodeError

Answer 28

Raised when a unicode problem occurs

Question 29

UnicodeEncodeError

Answer 29

Raised when a unicode encoding problem occurs

Question 30

UnicodeDecodeError

Answer 30

Raised when a unicode decoding problem occurs

Question 31

UnicodeTranslateError

Answer 31

Raised when a unicode translation problem occurs

Question 32

ValueError

Answer 32

Raised when there is a wrong value in a specified data type

Question 33

ZeroDivisionError

Answer 33

Raised when the second operator in a division is zero