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Functions
Error Handling

Python: Function and Error Handling

Prashant K. Sharma

Diptesh Kanojia

e-Yantra Team
ERTS Lab, IIT Bombay

IIT Bombay
October 24, 2020

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Functions
Error Handling

Agenda for Discussion

1 Functions
What is Function ?
Creating Functions
Definition vs. Calling
Testing and Documenting

2 Error Handling
Errors
Syntax Error
Index Errors
Variable Name Errors
Error Handling

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Creating Functions
Functions
Definition vs. Calling
Error Handling
Testing and Documenting

What is Function ?

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Creating Functions
Functions
Definition vs. Calling
Error Handling
Testing and Documenting

Creating Functions

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Creating Functions
Functions
Definition vs. Calling
Error Handling
Testing and Documenting

Definition vs. Calling

Definition: The code block which defines the statements to be executed

by the function is called definition of the function. It can take various
parameters and input and returns the output. In python, a function
needn’t always return something.

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Creating Functions
Functions
Definition vs. Calling
Error Handling
Testing and Documenting

Definition vs. Calling

Definition: The code block which defines the statements to be executed

by the function is called definition of the function. It can take various
parameters and input and returns the output. In python, a function
needn’t always return something.
Calling:When the defined function is called by passing the required
parameters.
Calling fahr to celsius function
fahr to celsius(32)

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Definition vs. Calling
Error Handling
Testing and Documenting

Testing and Documenting

Testing: To check the how robust our implementation of the define

function is, we write extra code for testing. This testing can be done by
defining a test function.

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Creating Functions
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Definition vs. Calling
Error Handling
Testing and Documenting

Testing and Documenting

Testing: To check the how robust our implementation of the define

function is, we write extra code for testing. This testing can be done by
defining a test function.
Documenting: When we put docstring inside a function which describes
input, output, what the function is doing, and sample input/ouputs etc.
For making it easier to re-use.

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Outline Syntax Error
Functions Index Errors
Error Handling Variable Name Errors
Error Handling

What are errors ?

Errors: Whenever something goes wrong during execution of a program,

it’s said an error has occurred.

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Error Handling Variable Name Errors
Error Handling

What are errors ?

Errors: Whenever something goes wrong during execution of a program,

it’s said an error has occurred.
In python errors have a form called traceback.

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Syntax Error

Syntax Error: If the error is due to grammar or syntax of the program

written it’s called syntax error.

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Syntax Error

Syntax Error: If the error is due to grammar or syntax of the program

written it’s called syntax error.
Example: wrong indentation, missing parenthesis, colon etc.
Syntax Error
def hello():
print(”hello world !”)
print(”hello python!”)

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Index Error

Index Error: If the error is due to accessing of a list or string which does
not exist, then that error is called index error

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Index Error

Index Error: If the error is due to accessing of a list or string which does
not exist, then that error is called index error

Index Error
primes = [ 2, 3 , 5, 7 ]
print( primes[4] )

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Variable Name Error

Variable Name Error: If the error is due to accessing a variable whose

name is misspelled its called variable name error.
Variable Name Error
primes = [ 2, 3 , 5, 7 ]
print( prime )

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Try Except

When an error occurs also called exceptions, the python code stops
executing, we can handle such scenarios using try statements.

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Try Except

When an error occurs also called exceptions, the python code stops
executing, we can handle such scenarios using try statements.

Figure 1: Example of Try Except

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References

• Python Errors
• Google Python Style Guide
• PEP 8 Style Guide

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Thank You!
Author: Prashant K. Sharma
Contributor: Diptesh Kanojia
Post your queries at: [email protected]/

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