eli5: In programming, how does using “try and except/catch” blocks stop the program from crashing?

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eli5: In programming, how does using “try and except/catch” blocks stop the program from crashing?

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It allows your program to run even when an exception (a kind of error) is thrown, it allows you to tell the program to do something else if it runs into an error instead of dying completely or continuously retrying.