The Python Apprentice

Exceptions raised by Python

Let's add a new line to the main() function which takes the square-root of -1:

def main():    print(sqrt(9))    print(sqrt(2))    print(sqrt(-1))

If we run that, we get a new exception:

$ python3 sqrt.py3.01.41421356237Traceback (most recent call last):  File "sqrt.py", line 14, in <module>    print(sqrt(-1))  File "sqrt.py", line 7, in sqrt    guess = (guess + x / guess) / 2.0ZeroDivisionError: float division

What has happened is that Python has intercepted a division by zero, which occurs on the second iteration of the loop, and raised an exception – a ZeroDivisionError.