Manually raising (throwing) an exception in Python

Question

How can I raise an exception in Python so that it can later be caught via an except block?

Answer 1

In Python3 there are 4 different syntaxes for rasing exceptions:

1. raise exception 
2. raise exception (args) 
3. raise
4. raise exception (args) from original_exception

1. raise exception vs. 2. raise exception (args)

If you use raise exception (args) to raise an exception then the args will be printed when you print the exception object - as shown in the example below.

  #raise exception (args)
    try:
        raise ValueError("I have raised an Exception")
    except ValueError as exp:
        print ("Error", exp)     # Output -> Error I have raised an Exception 



  #raise execption 
    try:
        raise ValueError
    except ValueError as exp:
        print ("Error", exp)     # Output -> Error 

3.raise

raise statement without any arguments re-raises the last exception. This is useful if you need to perform some actions after catching the exception and then want to re-raise it. But if there was no exception before, raise statement raises TypeError Exception.

def somefunction():
    print("some cleaning")

a=10
b=0 
result=None

try:
    result=a/b
    print(result)

except Exception:            #Output ->
    somefunction()           #some cleaning
    raise                    #Traceback (most recent call last):
                             #File "python", line 8, in 
                             #ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

4. raise exception (args) from original_exception

This statement is used to create exception chaining in which an exception that is raised in response to another exception can contain the details of the original exception - as shown in the example below.

class MyCustomException(Exception):
pass

a=10
b=0 
reuslt=None
try:
    try:
        result=a/b

    except ZeroDivisionError as exp:
        print("ZeroDivisionError -- ",exp)
        raise MyCustomException("Zero Division ") from exp

except MyCustomException as exp:
        print("MyException",exp)
        print(exp.__cause__)

Output:

ZeroDivisionError --  division by zero
MyException Zero Division 
division by zero