How to catch NotImplementedError Exception in Python?

Rajendra Dharmkar

Answered on 6th Dec, 2017

User-defined base classes can raise NotImplementedError to indicate that a method or behavior needs to be defined by a subclass, simulating an interface. This exception is derived from RuntimeError. In user defined base classes, abstract methods should raise this exception when they require derived classes to override the method.

import sys
try:
   class Super(object):
        @property
        def example(self):
            raise NotImplementedError("Subclasses should implement this!")
   s = Super()
   print s.example
except Exception as e:
    print e
    print sys.exc_type

OUTPUT

Subclasses should implement this!
<type 'exceptions.NotImplementedError'>