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Raising an Exception

Raising an Exception

Learn how to raise exceptions in Python.

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Overview

We’ll get to responding to such exceptions in a minute, but first, let’s discover what we should do if we’re writing a program that needs to inform the user or a calling function that the inputs are invalid. We can use the exact same mechanism that Python uses. Here’s a simple class that adds items to a list only if they are even-numbered integers:

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from typing import List
class EvenOnly(List[int]):
    def append(self, value: int) -> None:
        if not isinstance(value, int):
            raise TypeError("Only integers can be added")
        if value % 2 != 0:
            raise ValueError("Only even numbers can be added")
        super().append(value)

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