Raise, Raise With An Instance, And A Bare Raise To Re-raise

PCAP – Certified Associate Python Programmer PCAP-31-03 · Domain 2: Exceptions

Exceptions are not only raised by Python; your own code can raise them with the raise statement. You do this when a function detects a situation it cannot sensibly handle, such as a negative age or an empty list where data is required. Raising an exception hands the problem to the caller in a way that cannot be silently ignored.

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Raise, raise with an instance, and a bare raise to re-raise

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