Practice Exception Handling Inside __exit__ (4.7) - Chapter 4: Context Managers and the with Statement

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Question 1.
What parameters does the exit method receive?
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Think about what details are necessary for error management.
Question 2.
What happens if exit returns True?
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Consider what you want to happen to exceptions.
3Question 3.
What does the exit method do when an exception occurs?
- Suppresses the exception
- Raises the exception
- Logs the exception
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Remember how exceptions are handled in context managers.
4Question 4.
True or False: Returning False from exit suppresses the exception.
- True
- False
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Consider what you want the program to do with errors.
Question 5.
Design a context manager that logs exceptions to a file instead of suppressing them.
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Consider using file I/O techniques in your __exit__.
Question 6.
Create a context manager that differentiates between warnings and critical exceptions.
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Think about using the built-in warnings library in Python!

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