Exception Handling Tips in Python ⚠ Write Better Python Code Part 7

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This video covers exception handling in Python and it gives you a few more advanced tips of how to handle exceptions in production environments, including using different exceptions at each level of your application, using a context manager to automatically clean up resources such as an open database connection, and using decorators to have an easy mechanism for retrying operations if an exception occurs, or automatically logging exceptions to a file.

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🔖 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:43 Example explanation
4:29 Running the example
5:59 Exception types and handling exceptions on different levels
12:43 Adding a context manager
16:12 Retry decorator
17:46 Automatic logging of exceptions
18:37 Disadvantages of handling errors by exceptions
19:47 Alternative ways of handling errors
21:20 Outro

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