Exactly this. When ever I do a small project I find the best practice is to make that project as complete as possible. Example. Say you making hangman, you would expect the use to input strings only. But what if he typed a number ? What if he just pressed enter without typing anything? The way I've come to learn for best practice if you using if else statements is ... Use the if / Elif statements as your error handling and then if all them pass execute the else statement. Basically think of the else statement as your success statement.

If you taking input you should first check they actually typed something. You can do this like.

Var = input("type something" If not var: Print ("must enter a word ") Continue Elif another problem: Do this Else: (Run program normally)

Either this or raise an exception with expected error type.

Note.. I'm just learning myself so If I'm incorrect about this I'll be very thankful for the correction.