PCEP expects you to look at a short snippet and name the exception it raises. Six built-in exceptions come up again and again. Learn what triggers each one and how they differ, especially the pair TypeError and ValueError, which accounts for many wrong answers. When an exception is not handled, Python prints a traceback ending with a line like ZeroDivisionError: division by zero; the last line names the exception type and message, which is where to look first.
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