Error python : [ZeroDivisionError: division by zero]

Question

I am facing the error when I run the program using python:

The error is like this:

ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

The code is similar to this:

In [55]:

x = 0

y = 0

z = x/y

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

ZeroDivisionError                         Traceback (most recent call last)

<ipython-input-55-30b5d8268cca> in <module>()

      1 x = 0

      2 y = 0

----> 3 z = x/y

ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

How can I avoid the error in python, my desired output is:

 z = 0

Answer 1

You need to catch the error and handle it:

try:

    z = x / y

except ZeroDivisionError:

    z = 0

Or you can check before doing the division:

if y != 0:

    z = x / y

else:

    z = 0

Later you can reduced to:

z = (x / y) if y != 0 else 0

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