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<sub>Author:
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/asabeneh/" target="_blank">Asabeneh Yetayeh</a><br>
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<small> First Edition: Nov 22 - Dec 22, 2019</small>
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<small> Second Edition: July, 2021</small>
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## Python Error Types
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When we write code it's common that we make a typo or some other common error. If our code fails to run, the python interpreter will display a message, containing feedback with information on where the problem occurs and the type of an error. It will also sometimes gives us suggestions on a possible fix. Understanding different types of errors in programming languages will help us to debug our code quickly and also it makes us better at what we do.
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When we write code it is common that we make a typo or some other common error. If our code fails to run, the Python interpreter will display a message, containing feedback with information on where the problem occurs and the type of an error. It will also sometimes gives us suggestions on a possible fix. Understanding different types of errors in programming languages will help us to debug our code quickly and also it makes us better at what we do.
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Let's see the most common error types one by one. First let us open our python interactive shell. Go to your you computer terminal and write 'python'. The python interactive shell will be opened.
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Let us see the most common error types one by one. First let us open our Python interactive shell. Go to your you computer terminal and write 'python'. The python interactive shell will be opened.
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### SyntaxError
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**Example 1: SyntaxError**
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```py
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As you can see we made a syntax error because we forgot to enclose the string with parenthesis and python already suggests the solution. Let's fix it.
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As you can see we made a syntax error because we forgot to enclose the string with parenthesis and Python already suggests the solution. Let us fix it.
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```py
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**Example 1: NameError**
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As you can see from the message above, name age is not defined. Yes, it is true. We did not define an age variable but we were trying to print it out as if we had had declared it. Now, lets fix this by declaring it and assigning with a value.
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As you can see from the message above, name age is not defined. Yes, it is true that we did not define an age variable but we were trying to print it out as if we had had declared it. Now, lets fix this by declaring it and assigning with a value.
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In the example above, python raised an _IndexError_, because the list has only indexes from 0 to 4 , so it was out of range.
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In the example above, Python raised an _IndexError_, because the list has only indexes from 0 to 4 , so it was out of range.
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