Intro to Python exceptions

Python uses exceptions to indicate that something unusual has happened — often an error. What are exceptions? How can we trap them? What exceptions are available? And why is it wrong to say that a program "crashed"?

I answer all of these questions in this video, showing you how to trap various kinds of exceptions. The Jupyter notebook that I used is at https://github.com/reuven/YouTube-notebooks.

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