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61 | Exceptions are a means of breaking out of the normal flow of control | |
62 | of a code block in order to handle errors or other exceptional | |
63 | conditions. An exception is | |
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71 | The Python interpreter raises an exception when it detects a run-time | |
72 | error (such as division by zero). A Python program can also | |
73 | explicitly raise an exception with the <tt class="keyword">raise</tt> statement. | |
74 | Exception handlers are specified with the <tt class="keyword">try</tt> ... <tt class="keyword">except</tt> | |
75 | statement. The <tt class="keyword">try</tt> ... <tt class="keyword">finally</tt> statement | |
76 | specifies cleanup code which does not handle the exception, but is | |
77 | executed whether an exception occurred or not in the preceding code. | |
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80 | Python uses the ``termination''<a id='l2h-327' xml:id='l2h-327'></a> model of | |
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93 | Exceptions are identified by class instances. | |
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115 | See also the description of the <tt class="keyword">try</tt> statement in | |
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