Python 3 Object Oriented Programming

Summary

In this chapter, we went into the gritty details of raising, handling, defining, and manipulating exceptions. Exceptions are a powerful way to communicate unusual circumstances or error conditions without requiring a calling function to explicitly check return values. Specifically, we covered:

• Built-in exceptions and raising exceptions
• Several ways to handle specific exceptions
• Defining new exceptions
• Using exceptions for unexceptional circumstances

In the next chapter, everything we've studied so far will come together as we discuss how object-oriented programming principles and structures should best be applied in Python applications.