[Tutor] How to handle exceptions raised inside a function?

[Steven D'Aprano]

Richard D. Moores wrote:
[...]
>> def harmonic_mean(data):
>>    try:
>>        m = mean(1.0/x for x in data)
>>    except ZeroDivisionError:
>>        return 0.0
>>    if m == 0.0:
>>        return math.copysign(float('inf'), m)
>>    return 1/m
> 
> math.copysign! Didn't know about that one. But "mean"? It's not a
> built-in function..

No, it's not, it's a function from my stats module.

The naive version is simple:

def mean(data):
     return sum(data)/len(data)


My version is a bit more complicated than that, in order to minimize 
round-off error and support iterators.



-- 
Steven