Handling Exceptions

try..except block

Let’s look at the tail side of the exception coin. If we encounter an exception situation, how should our code react to or recover from it? We handle exceptions by wrapping any code that might throw one (whether it is exception code itself, or a call to any function that may have an exception raised) inside a try...except clause.

Handle an exception

If we run this simple script below using our existing never_returns() function—which, as we know very well, always throws an exception—we get the following output: