Moving along through our in-depth Python Exception Handling series, today we’ll dig into the AttributeError. The AttributeError in Python is raised when an invalid attribute reference is made, or when an attribute assignment fails. While most objects support attributes, those that do not will merely raise a TypeError when an… continue reading →

Making our way through our detailed Python Exception Handling series, today we’re going over the AssertionError. Like many programming languages, Python includes a built-in assert statement that allows you to create simple debug message outputs based on simple logical assertions. When such an assert statement fails (i.e. returns a False-y… continue reading →

Moving along through our in-depth Python Exception Handling series, today we’ll be looking at the ZeroDivisionError. As you may suspect, the ZeroDivisionError in Python indicates that the second argument used in a division (or modulo) operation was zero. Throughout this article we’ll examine the ZeroDivisionError by looking at where it… continue reading →

Making our way through our detailed Python Exception Handling series brings us today to the OverflowError within Python. Just like most other programming languages, the OverflowError in Python indicates that an arithmetic operation has exceeded the limits of the current Python runtime. This is typically due to excessively large Float… continue reading →

Today we get started with our in-depth Python Exception Handling series by looking at the FloatingPointError. As with most programming languages, the FloatingPointError in Python indicates that something has gone wrong with a floating point calculation. However, unlike most other languages, Python will not raise a FloatingPointError by default. The… continue reading →

The Python exception class hierarchy consists of a few dozen different exceptions spread across a handful of important base class types. As with most programming languages, errors occur within a Python application when something unexpected goes wrong. Anything from improper arithmetic and running out of memory to invalid file references… continue reading →