Handling specific exceptions in Python - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to catch a ZeroDivisionError exception.

Python

try:
    result = 10 / 0
except [1]:
    print("Cannot divide by zero!")

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AZeroDivisionError

BTypeError

CValueError

DIndexError

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a wrong exception type like ValueError or TypeError.

Not catching the exception at all.

The ZeroDivisionError is raised when division by zero occurs. Catching it allows handling this specific error.

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medium

Complete the code to catch a FileNotFoundError when opening a file.

Python

try:
    with open('missing.txt') as f:
        content = f.read()
except [1]:
    print("File not found.")

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AIOError

BFileNotFoundError

COSError

DValueError

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using IOError which is more general.

Catching the wrong exception like ValueError.

FileNotFoundError is raised when trying to open a file that does not exist.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the except clause to catch the correct exception for invalid integer conversion.

Python

try:
    number = int('abc')
except [1]:
    print("Invalid integer!")

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AValueError

BTypeError

CNameError

DZeroDivisionError

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using TypeError which is for wrong data types, not invalid values.

Using ZeroDivisionError which is unrelated.

Converting a non-numeric string to int raises a ValueError.

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hard

Fill both blanks to catch a KeyError and print a custom message.

Python

my_dict = {'a': 1}
try:
    value = my_dict[[1]]
except [2]:
    print("Key not found in dictionary.")

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A'b'

B'a'

CKeyError

DIndexError

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a key that exists, so no exception is raised.

Catching the wrong exception like IndexError.

Accessing a missing key 'b' raises KeyError, which we catch to print a message.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to catch a TypeError when adding incompatible types and print a message.

Python

try:
    result = [1] + [2]
except [3]:
    print("Cannot add these types!")

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A5

B'hello'

CTypeError

D10

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Adding two numbers which does not raise an error.

Catching the wrong exception like ValueError.

Adding an integer (5) and a string ('hello') raises a TypeError, which we catch.