Python-3.4.3/C4/Handling-Errors-and-Exceptions/English

Title of script: Handling errors and exceptions

Author: Arun KP

Keywords: Python, Ipython, error handling, exceptions, debugging, video tutorial

Visual Cue	Narration
Show Slide title	Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Handling errors and exceptions.
Show Slide Objectives	In this tutorial, you will learn to, Understand errors and exceptions Handle Errors and Exceptions
Show Slide System Specifications	To record this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Linux 16.04 operating system Python 3.4.3 IPython 5.1.0
Show Slide Prerequisite	To practise this tutorial, you should know how to use functions and carry-out testing and debugging If not, see the relevant Python tutorials on this website.
Slide Errors	In Python there are two kinds of errors: syntax errors and exceptions
Show Slide Syntax Error	Syntax errors are caused by incorrect usages and these are detected by parser. For example: if True print inside brackets inside double quotes done It will give Syntax Error since colon is missing after True.
Show Slide Exceptions	Exception is an error that occurs during execution of a program. Python generates an exception that can be handled, which avoids the program to crash. For example: 1/0 It will give ZeroDivisionError exception.
Open terminal	Let us see these examples in action. Open the terminal.
Type, ipython3	Type ipython3 and press Enter. From here onwards remember to press the Enter key after typing every command.
Type, if True print("done") Highlight the arrow mark	Now type if True print inside brackets inside double quotes done The output shows SyntaxError. It displays an ‘arrow’ pointing at the earliest point in the line where the error was detected. In our case, the error is caused by missing colon after True in If clause
Type, 1 / 0	Now type, 1 / 0 Python throws an exception called ZeroDivisionError. Even though the expression is syntactically correct, we cannot divide a number by zero.
	Exception is a special kind of failure reported by the programming language.
Type, a = input("Enter a number: ") Enter ac num = int(a)	Lets see how can we deal with Exceptions that occur in programs. Type a = input inside brackets inside double quotes Enter an integer I will enter ac as input. Now type, num is equal to int inside brackets a
Point to the error	When you run this code, it throws a 'ValueError' Exception. This is because, we are trying to convert the string to integer.
	So now we can 'catch' exceptions and write code to handle it. For this we have try and except clause in python.
[slide] try..except..else try: statement1 statement2 except exception name: exception handling statement(s) else: statement(s) when no exception after statement(s) Highlight according to narration	Here is the syntax of try....except...else blocks. First, the statements between the try and except keywords is executed. If the statements do not cause any exception, the except clause is skipped. If the statements cause any exception, then except clause is executed if exception name matches. And the execution continues after the try statement. The code in the else-block executes if the code in the try: block does not raise an exception.
Type, a = input("Enter an integer: ") ac try: num = int(a) except ValueError: print ("Wrong input") Press Enter twice output: Wrong input	Type as shown. Give ac as input. Now we will type the try and except blocks. Press Enter twice to get the output. In the previous example, We encountered a problem because we tried to convert the string ‘ac’ to integer. Here conversion of string value to an integer is given inside try block. ValueError exception is raised and so the output is displayed as Wrong input.
	In the previous example, we found out what caused the error and then resolved to get a solution for it. This whole process is called debugging.
	Next we will see another case in try except statement with else clause.
b = input("Enter an integer: ") 23 try: num = int(b) except ValueError: print ("Wrong input") else: print(“No exception “) Press Enter twice Highlight No exception	Lets change our previous code slightly. Type as shown. I will give input as 23. Now type as shown. This try… except statement has an optional else clause. It is useful if the try clause does not raise an exception.
Open a text editor and type the following code def test(): prod = 1 for i in range(0, 10): prod *= i / (i - 5) print(prod) Save it as file mymodule.py	Lets see another example for debugging. Create a file with the following code. The variable ‘i’ is iterated from 0 to 9. Save it as mymodule.py
Type, from mymodule import test test()	Let us run this code in Ipython. Type, from mymodule import test test open and close brackets Interpreter gives us an ZeroDivisionError because there is a division by zero error.
Type, %debug Highlight the arrow mark Highlight ipdb>	To find the value which caused the error, type this Percentage debug The code which caused the error is shown by an arrow. The prompt has changed to ipdb which is the ipython debugger mode.
[IPython Terminal] ipdb> i 5	Using this debugger here, you can access variables in the previous code block. We can check values of variable to inspect what went wrong. For example, on typing ‘i’, we get 5 as output. This means that the error was caused when the value of i became 5. To exit from the ipdb prompt, press q and press Enter.
Show Slide Summary	This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we have learnt about Errors and exceptions. Handling exception using try and except. Using percentage debug for debugging in ipython.
Show Slide Self assessment questions	Here is a self assessment question for you to solve 1. How do you start the debugger on ipython?
Show Slide Solutions	And the answer, We start the debugger on ipython by saying, percentage debug
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Previous slide	This is Priya from IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you.

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