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This tutorial does not attempt to be comprehensive and cover every single feature, or even. There are also several books covering python in depth. Exception handling in python it is likely that you have raised exceptions if you have typed all the previous commands of the tutorial. For more information on python 3 see the python website. When a python script raises an exception, it must either handle the exception. This tutorial does not attempt to be comprehensive and cover every single feature, or even every. The quick python book, third edition is a comprehensive guide to the python language by a python authority, naomi ceder. Exception handing is something every programmer will need to learn. It may not be as applicable, but i just cracked open programming in python 3 by mark summerfield and so far it seems pretty good, although it is focused on python 3, so if youre planning on learning something like django, which hasnt made the jump to python 3 and likely wont for some time, this book might not be the best. File handling openclose can be done by the context manager with. I finally picked the quick python book just to see what all this python thingy is all about.
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