Chain exceptions with raise from

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In the process of handling an exception, you may want to raise another exception. For example, if you get an IOError while reading from a file, you may want to raise an application-specific error to present to the users of your library, instead.

You can chain exceptions to show how the handling of exceptions proceeded:

>>> try:
    5 / 0
except ZeroDivisionError as e:
    raise ValueError("Division failed") from e

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 4, in <module>
ValueError: Division failed

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