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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 18:55:06 +1100
Subject: Re: error in except
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Laxmikant Chitare
<laxmikant.general@gmail.com> wrote:
> One more thing, apart from what Albert mentioned.
> Exceptions must be classes or instances. In effect you cannot just do
> 'raise'. 'raise' statement must be followed by a class or an instance.

You can inside an except clause.

>>> try:
	1/0
except:
	print("I got an exception!")
	raise

I got an exception!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#5>", line 2, in <module>
    1/0
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero


ChrisA