Control flow

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Basics

• Looping constructs and iterables
• Altering and breaking out of loops: continue, break
• if-else construct and problems with nesting too many branches
• The else clause for loops

Advanced

• The match construct (Python 3.10.x) to avoid nesting
• Pros & cons of looping (when it's better to use functional programming methods)
• Recursion and its limits
• The built-in Exception class
• Built-in exceptions: TypeError, NameError, KeyError, ZeroDivisionError, OverflowError
• The try-except-finally construct
• How to handle exceptions to have a stack trace useful for debugging