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

💡 Learn how to design great software in 7 steps: https://arjan.codes/designguide. 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. You can find the code I worked on in this episode in my GitHub repository: https://github.com/arjancodes/betterpython 🎓 ArjanCodes Courses: https://www.arjancodes.com/courses/ 🔖 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 #arjancodes #softwaredesign #exceptionhandling