Exception handling lets your program gracefully manage errors and unexpected situations, instead of crashing abruptly.

Catching ZeroDivisionError:

try: i = 1 / 0 except ZeroDivisionError: print('ZeroDivisionError') else: print(i)

Catching FileNotFoundError:

from pathlib import Path path = Path('file.txt') try: text = path.read_text(encoding='utf-8') except FileNotFoundError: print('FileNotFoundError') else: print(text)

Failing silently:

try: i = 1 / 0 except ZeroDivisionError: pass # special statement that tells python to swallow the exception else: print(i)