[Tutor] Exceptions vs. Status Codes

[Alan Gauld]

> not have an answer.  Is it a better practice to have a function raise
> an exception on error, so that the error can be caught; or return a
> status code indicating that the function was unsuccessful?

Exceptions are nearly always better.
For some of the reasons why, see my tutorial topic on Error Handling

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