By specific exception I mean differentiating between the same exception but different errors from the same exception rather than differentiating between different exceptions completely, for example:
With the ZeroDivisionError exception, there are multiple errors. One of which being:
>> 0/0
>> ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
And another being:
>> 0**-1
>> ZeroDivisionError: 0.0 cannot be raised to a negative power
Same exception, different errors.
I want to only except one type of error which is the 0 to a negative power error and pass it, but with any other ZeroDivisionError I want to re-raise the error but with an empty message.
The first thing I tried was:
try:... # Some code
except ZeroDivisionError as e:
if e!="0.0 cannot be raised to a negative power":
raise ZeroDivisionError("")
But that wouldn't work, no other errors being raised, just simply wouldn't work.
So I started investigating and found out that e is not a string type but instead a ZeroDivisionError type.
So if you do this:
try:print(0/0)
except ZeroDivisionError as e:
print(type(e))
The output would be:
<class 'ZeroDivisionError'>
So in my second attempt I did the same thing as before but instead compared e to a certain ZeroDivisionError type error:
try:... # Some code
except ZeroDivisionError as e:
if e!=ZeroDivisionError("0.0 cannot be raised to a negative power"):
raise ZeroDivisionError("")
But again, same way as before, didn't work.
So one last thing came to me which was including the error string when excepting the exception:
try:... # Some code
except ZeroDivisionError("0.0 cannot be raised to a negative power"):
raise ZeroDivisionError("")
But anticipating failure, it failed.
So.. is it possible? Or can you only except certain exceptions no matter what error within the exception?
