What is the effect of the statement 'raise' without any arguments inside an except block?

Re-raises the currently handled exception

What is a common use case for the finally clause?

Returning a value from a function

Catching specific exception types

Releasing external resources like files or network connections

When does the else clause in a try/except block execute?

Only when no exception is raised in the try block

Only when an exception is raised and handled

Always, regardless of exceptions

Only when an exception is raised and not handled

How do you create a custom exception class in Python?

exception MyError(Exception): pass

A developer writes: except (ValueError, TypeError) as e: handle(). A bug causes the code to raise a subclass of ValueError. What happens?

The handler runs, because the tuple matches the raised exception's class or any of its superclasses

A TypeError is raised because the tuple cannot contain subclasses

The handler does not run, because the tuple only matches exact types

The handler runs only if the subclass is also listed in the tuple

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