Question

What is the use of a raise statement? Write a code to accept two numbers and display the quotient. Appropriate exception should be raised if the user enters the second number (denominator) as zero (0).

Answer 1

The raise statement can be used to throw an exception.

The syntax of raise statement is: raise exception-name[(optional argument)]

The argument is generally a string that is displayed when the exception is raised.

code to accept two numbers and display the quotient.

n = int(input("Enter Number 1 :"))
 m = int(input("Enter Number 2 :"))
 if m == 0:
     raise ZeroDivisionError
 else:
     print("Quotient : ", n / m)