When to use try and except?

[cnb]

On Aug 29, 7:40 pm, Daniel <daniel.watr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 29, 11:23 am, cnb <circularf... at yahoo.se> wrote:
>
> > If I get zero division error it is obv a poor solution to do try and
> > except since it can be solved with an if-clause.
>
> > However if a program runs out of memory I should just let it crash
> > right? Because if not then I'd have to write exceptions everywhere to
> > prevent that right?
>
> > So when would I actually use try-except?
>
> > If there can be several exceptions and I just want to catch 1 or 2?
> > Like
> > try:
> >     blahaba
> > except SomeError:
> >     do something
>
> I'm not sure whay you're trying to do, but I think catching a
> ZeroDivisionError exception is a good use of try-except.
>
> I'm also not sure that I would say you just let a program crash if it
> runs out of memory.  I would think that from the user perspective, you
> would want to check memory conditions and come up with an exception
> indicating that some memory threshold has been reached.  When that
> exception is raised you should indicate that to the user and exit
> gracefully.


A ZeroDivisionError is better avoided wth an if-clause, don't you
think? It is a predictable exception...