The Python Apprentice

Programmer errors

Now that we're confident with the control flow for exception behavior, we can remove the print statements:

def convert(s):    """Convert a string to an integer."""    x = -1    try:        x = int(s)    except (ValueError, TypeError):    return x

But now when we try to import our program:

>>> from exceptional import convertTraceback (most recent call last):  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>  File "./exceptional.py", line 11    return x          ^IndentationError: expected an indented block

we get yet another type of exception, an IndentationError, because our except block is now empty and empty blocks are not permitted in Python programs.

This is not an exception type that is ever useful to catch with an except block! Almost anything that goes wrong with ...