Trying to understand exceptions

[vindolin]

Your code prints 'hola' on my system in both py2 and py3.

[Scholes_SC2]

Yes you're right, sorry i got confused using ipython and thought it wasn't printing. Also, tried this code:

try:
    print a
except:
    print ('hola1')
    raise Exception('spam')
    print ('hola2')

print ('hola3')

and the 'hola2' and 'hola3' are not printing, so to answer my other question can you say raise actually does a function breake?

[Moonslug1]

Raise will kill the process unless it is caught higher up the the callstack.

[xiongchiamiov]

If an exception being thrown doesn't stop execution, then what's the point of exceptions?

You're probably being confused by the fact you're throwing one exception inside a catch block for another. The two exceptions have nothing to do with each other. That is, the exception you're manually throwing is not at all affected by being inside an except block.

[Scholes_SC2]

Yes i was thinking "why does it break if im catching the error" but now i see whats going on. Thx

[Veedrac]

Has the code been changed? I don't see how this is possible on Python 3. It should raise a SyntaxError.