# 8. 錯誤和例外

Until now error messages haven't been more than mentioned, but if you have tried out the examples you have probably seen some. There are (at least) two distinguishable kinds of errors: syntax errors and exceptions.

## 8.1. 語法錯誤

Syntax errors, also known as parsing errors, are perhaps the most common kind of complaint you get while you are still learning Python:

    >>> while True print('Hello world')
      File "<stdin>", line 1
        while True print('Hello world')
                       ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The parser repeats the offending line and displays a little 'arrow' pointing at the earliest point in the line where the error was detected. The error is caused by (or at least detected at) the token preceding the arrow: in the example, the error is detected at the function `print()`, since a colon (`':'`) is missing before it. File name and line number are printed so you know where to look in case the input came from a script.

## 8.2. 例外

Even if a statement or expression is syntactically correct, it may cause an error when an attempt is made to execute it. Errors detected during execution are called exceptions and are not unconditionally fatal: you will soon learn how to handle them in Python programs. Most exceptions are not handled by programs, however, and result in error messages as shown here:

    >>> 10 * (1/0)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
    >>> 4 + spam*3
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    NameError: name 'spam' is not defined
    >>> '2' + 2
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    TypeError: Can't convert 'int' object to str implicitly

The last line of the error message indicates what happened. Exceptions come in different types, and the type is printed as part of the message: the types in the example are `ZeroDivisionError`, `NameError` and `TypeError`. The string printed as the exception type is the name of the built-in exception that occurred. This is true for all built-in exceptions, but need not be true for user-defined exceptions (although it is a useful convention). Standard exception names are built-in identifiers (not reserved keywords).

The rest of the line provides detail based on the type of exception and what caused it.

The preceding part of the error message shows the context where the exception happened, in the form of a stack traceback. In general it contains a stack traceback listing source lines; however, it will not display lines read from standard input.

內建的例外 lists the built-in exceptions and their meanings.

## 8.3. 處理例外

It is possible to write programs that handle selected exceptions. Look at the following example, which asks the user for input until a valid integer has been entered, but allows the user to interrupt the program (using `Control-C` or whatever the operating system supports); note that a user-generated interruption is signalled by raising the `KeyboardInterrupt` exception.

    >>> while True:
    ...     try:
    ...         x = int(input("Please enter a number: "))
    ...         break
    ...     except ValueError:
    ...         print("Oops!  That was no valid number.  Try again...")
    ...

The `try` statement works as follows.

- First, the try clause (the statement(s) between the `try` and `except` keywords) is executed.
- If no exception occurs, the except clause is skipped and execution of the `try` statement is finished.
- If an exception occurs during execution of the try clause, the rest of the clause is skipped. Then if its type matches the exception named after the `except` keyword, the except clause is executed, and then execution continues after the `try` statement.
- If an exception occurs which does not match the exception named in the except clause, it is passed on to outer `try` statements; if no handler is found, it is an unhandled exception and execution stops with a message as shown above.

一个 `try` 语句可能有多个 except 子句，以指定不同异常的处理程序。 最多会执行一个处理程序。 处理程序只处理相应的 try 子句中发生的异常，而不处理同一 `try` 语句内其他处理程序中的异常。 一个 except 子句可以将多个异常命名为带括号的元组，例如:

    ... except (RuntimeError, TypeError, NameError):
    ...     pass

A class in an `except` clause is compatible with an exception if it is the same class or a base class thereof (but not the other way around --- an except clause listing a derived class is not compatible with a base class). For example, the following code will print B, C, D in that order:

    class B(Exception):
        pass

    class C(B):
        pass

    class D(C):
        pass

    for cls in [B, C, D]:
        try:
            raise cls()
        except D:
            print("D")
        except C:
            print("C")
        except B:
            print("B")

Note that if the except clauses were reversed (with `except B` first), it would have printed B, B, B --- the first matching except clause is triggered.

The last except clause may omit the exception name(s), to serve as a wildcard. Use this with extreme caution, since it is easy to mask a real programming error in this way! It can also be used to print an error message and then re-raise the exception (allowing a caller to handle the exception as well):

    import sys

    try:
        f = open('myfile.txt')
        s = f.readline()
        i = int(s.strip())
    except OSError as err:
        print("OS error: {0}".format(err))
    except ValueError:
        print("Could not convert data to an integer.")
    except:
        print("Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0])
        raise

The `try` ... `except` statement has an optional else clause, which, when present, must follow all except clauses. It is useful for code that must be executed if the try clause does not raise an exception. For example:

    for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
        try:
            f = open(arg, 'r')
        except OSError:
            print('cannot open', arg)
        else:
            print(arg, 'has', len(f.readlines()), 'lines')
            f.close()

使用 `else` 子句比向 `try` 子句添加额外的代码要好，因为它避免了意外捕获由 `try` ... `except` 语句保护的代码未引发的异常。

When an exception occurs, it may have an associated value, also known as the exception's argument. The presence and type of the argument depend on the exception type.

The except clause may specify a variable after the exception name. The variable is bound to an exception instance with the arguments stored in `instance.args`. For convenience, the exception instance defines `__str__()` so the arguments can be printed directly without having to reference `.args`. One may also instantiate an exception first before raising it and add any attributes to it as desired.

    >>> try:
    ...     raise Exception('spam', 'eggs')
    ... except Exception as inst:
    ...     print(type(inst))    # the exception instance
    ...     print(inst.args)     # arguments stored in .args
    ...     print(inst)          # __str__ allows args to be printed directly,
    ...                          # but may be overridden in exception subclasses
    ...     x, y = inst.args     # unpack args
    ...     print('x =', x)
    ...     print('y =', y)
    ...
    <class 'Exception'>
    ('spam', 'eggs')
    ('spam', 'eggs')
    x = spam
    y = eggs

If an exception has arguments, they are printed as the last part ('detail') of the message for unhandled exceptions.

Exception handlers don't just handle exceptions if they occur immediately in the try clause, but also if they occur inside functions that are called (even indirectly) in the try clause. For example:

    >>> def this_fails():
    ...     x = 1/0
    ...
    >>> try:
    ...     this_fails()
    ... except ZeroDivisionError as err:
    ...     print('Handling run-time error:', err)
    ...
    Handling run-time error: division by zero

## 8.4. Raising Exceptions

The `raise` statement allows the programmer to force a specified exception to occur. For example:

    >>> raise NameError('HiThere')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    NameError: HiThere

The sole argument to `raise` indicates the exception to be raised. This must be either an exception instance or an exception class (a class that derives from `Exception`). If an exception class is passed, it will be implicitly instantiated by calling its constructor with no arguments:

    raise ValueError  # shorthand for 'raise ValueError()'

If you need to determine whether an exception was raised but don't intend to handle it, a simpler form of the `raise` statement allows you to re-raise the exception:

    >>> try:
    ...     raise NameError('HiThere')
    ... except NameError:
    ...     print('An exception flew by!')
    ...     raise
    ...
    An exception flew by!
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
    NameError: HiThere

## 8.5. User-defined Exceptions

Programs may name their own exceptions by creating a new exception class (see Classes for more about Python classes). Exceptions should typically be derived from the `Exception` class, either directly or indirectly.

Exception classes can be defined which do anything any other class can do, but are usually kept simple, often only offering a number of attributes that allow information about the error to be extracted by handlers for the exception. When creating a module that can raise several distinct errors, a common practice is to create a base class for exceptions defined by that module, and subclass that to create specific exception classes for different error conditions:

    class Error(Exception):
        """Base class for exceptions in this module."""
        pass

    class InputError(Error):
        """Exception raised for errors in the input.

        Attributes:
            expression -- input expression in which the error occurred
            message -- explanation of the error
        """

        def __init__(self, expression, message):
            self.expression = expression
            self.message = message

    class TransitionError(Error):
        """Raised when an operation attempts a state transition that's not
        allowed.

        Attributes:
            previous -- state at beginning of transition
            next -- attempted new state
            message -- explanation of why the specific transition is not allowed
        """

        def __init__(self, previous, next, message):
            self.previous = previous
            self.next = next
            self.message = message

Most exceptions are defined with names that end in "Error", similar to the naming of the standard exceptions.

Many standard modules define their own exceptions to report errors that may occur in functions they define. More information on classes is presented in chapter Classes.

## 8.6. Defining Clean-up Actions

The `try` statement has another optional clause which is intended to define clean-up actions that must be executed under all circumstances. For example:

    >>> try:
    ...     raise KeyboardInterrupt
    ... finally:
    ...     print('Goodbye, world!')
    ...
    Goodbye, world!
    KeyboardInterrupt
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>

finally 子句 总会在离开 `try` 语句前被执行，无论是否发生了异常。 当在 `try` 子句中发生了异常且尚未被 `except` 子句处理（或者它发生在 `except` 或 `else` 子句中）时，它将在 `finally` 子句执行后被重新抛出。 当 `try` 语句的任何其他子句通过 `break`, `continue` 或 `return` 语句离开时，`finally` 也会在“离开之前”被执行，一个更复杂的例子:

    >>> def divide(x, y):
    ...     try:
    ...         result = x / y
    ...     except ZeroDivisionError:
    ...         print("division by zero!")
    ...     else:
    ...         print("result is", result)
    ...     finally:
    ...         print("executing finally clause")
    ...
    >>> divide(2, 1)
    result is 2.0
    executing finally clause
    >>> divide(2, 0)
    division by zero!
    executing finally clause
    >>> divide("2", "1")
    executing finally clause
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      File "<stdin>", line 3, in divide
    TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'str' and 'str'

正如你所看到的，`finally` 子句在任何情况下都会被执行。 两个字符串相除所引发的 `TypeError` 不会由 `except` 子句处理，因此会在 `finally` 子句执行后被重新引发。

In real world applications, the `finally` clause is useful for releasing external resources (such as files or network connections), regardless of whether the use of the resource was successful.

## 8.7. Predefined Clean-up Actions

Some objects define standard clean-up actions to be undertaken when the object is no longer needed, regardless of whether or not the operation using the object succeeded or failed. Look at the following example, which tries to open a file and print its contents to the screen.

    for line in open("myfile.txt"):
        print(line, end="")

The problem with this code is that it leaves the file open for an indeterminate amount of time after this part of the code has finished executing. This is not an issue in simple scripts, but can be a problem for larger applications. The `with` statement allows objects like files to be used in a way that ensures they are always cleaned up promptly and correctly.

    with open("myfile.txt") as f:
        for line in f:
            print(line, end="")

After the statement is executed, the file f is always closed, even if a problem was encountered while processing the lines. Objects which, like files, provide predefined clean-up actions will indicate this in their documentation.