Handling exception hierarchies

Previously, you defined an Employee class with a method get_bonus() that raises a BonusError and a SalaryError depending on parameters. But the BonusError exception was inherited from the SalaryError exception. How does exception inheritance affect exception handling?

The Employee class has been defined for you. It has a minimal salary of 30000 and a maximal bonus amount of 5000.

Question

Experiment with the following code

emp = Employee("Katze Rik", salary=50000)
try:
  emp.give_bonus(7000)
except SalaryError:
  print("SalaryError caught!")

try:
  emp.give_bonus(7000)
except BonusError:
  print("BonusError caught!")

try:
  emp.give_bonus(-100000)
except SalaryError:
  print("SalaryError caught again!")

try:
  emp.give_bonus(-100000)
except BonusError:
  print("BonusError caught again!")

and select the statement which is TRUE about handling parent/child exception classes:

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except block for a parent exception will catch child exceptions
except block for a parent exception will not catch child exceptions

Exercise

Handling exception hierarchies

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