If you were planning to handle the exception outside of the class (in wordcount.py, for example), you would be done working in wordprocess.py at this point. The exceptions will be raised, and if not ...

Very early Python versions used simple strings to signalize errors. Later, Python allowed raising arbitrary classes, and added specialized exception classes to the standard library. For backwards ...

In our example, Python offers two ways to access the exception information. For both, the Python script first must have import sys before the try: .. except: portion of the code. With the first method ...