While developing python programs, you might see exception messages from python. Here's an explanation to understand each part of the message. Here're tips on how to understand python exceptions. You can find two kinds of exceptions. These are StandardError and StopIteration errors. Here is a chart that shows the types of python errors. Python exceptions class Python exceptions are basically three parts. Reading an error message produced by  Python is not very difficult . The error type, the error description, and the traceback. Understand the python exception message The Error Type There are so many in-built exception types in python. Here is the command to get all the exception types: [x for x in dir(__builtins__) if 'Error' in x] The Error description The text message right after the error type gives us a description of what exactly the problem was. These descriptions are sometimes very accurate, sometimes not. Sample error Traceback (most recent call last):     ...