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4.1 Standard Exceptions
All standard Python exceptions are available as global variables whose names are "PyExc_" followed by the Python exception name. These have the type PyObject*; they are all either class objects or string objects, depending on the use of the -X option to the interpreter. For completeness, here are all the variables:
| C Name | Python Name | Notes |
PyExc_Exception |
Exception | (1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
PyExc_StandardError |
StandardError | (1) | |||
|
PyExc_ArithmeticError |
ArithmeticError | (1) | |||
|
PyExc_LookupError |
LookupError | (1) | |||
|
PyExc_AssertionError |
AssertionError | ||||
|
PyExc_AttributeError |
AttributeError | ||||
|
PyExc_EOFError |
EOFError | ||||
|
PyExc_EnvironmentError |
EnvironmentError | (1) | |||
|
PyExc_FloatingPointError |
FloatingPointError | ||||
|
PyExc_IOError |
IOError | ||||
|
PyExc_ImportError |
ImportError | ||||
|
PyExc_IndexError |
IndexError | ||||
|
PyExc_KeyError |
KeyError | ||||
|
PyExc_KeyboardInterrupt |
KeyboardInterrupt | ||||
|
PyExc_MemoryError |
MemoryError | ||||
|
PyExc_NameError |
NameError | ||||
|
PyExc_NotImplementedError |
NotImplementedError | ||||
|
PyExc_OSError |
OSError | ||||
|
PyExc_OverflowError |
OverflowError | ||||
|
PyExc_RuntimeError |
RuntimeError | ||||
|
PyExc_SyntaxError |
SyntaxError | ||||
|
PyExc_SystemError |
SystemError | ||||
|
PyExc_SystemExit |
SystemExit | ||||
|
PyExc_TypeError |
TypeError | ||||
|
PyExc_ValueError |
ValueError | ||||
|
PyExc_ZeroDivisionError |
ZeroDivisionError |
Note:
- (1)
- This is a base class for other standard exceptions. If the
-Xinterpreter option is used, these will be tuples containing the string exceptions which would have otherwise been subclasses.
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