Lesson 8: Error Handling

What is Error Handling?

• A way to tell the user that the app/software has started

• A way to tell the user that the app/software is about to, or has failed

• A way to tell the user that the app/software has been handled

• A way to tell the user that the app/software is about to close

What is the best way for a software to fail? You may choose more than one answer.

• Give details on what could the user have done

• By closing the application entirely

• Silently and keep it secret from the user

• Obviously and let the user know what happened

Which of the following are examples of processes that may fail:

• Division of a number

• Getting inputs from user

• Reading and/or writing data to/from files

• Calling an external REST API

• All of the above

In Python, how do we handle exceptions?

• By using the try... catch statement

• By using the try... except statement

• By using the do... but statement

• By using the if... else statement

Which of the following inputs from the user, will cause the code the in image to break?

• 123

• 12.5

• Strawberries

• 54