which means that you won' lose any data and the application can recover using generic exception handling does have some advantagesbut you must use it carefully figure - generic exception handling traps the keyboard inter rupt exception working with exception arguments most exceptions don' provide arguments ( list of values that you can check for additional informationthe exception either occurs or it doesn' howevera few exceptions do provide argumentsand you see them used later in the book the arguments tell you more about the exception and provide details that you need to correct it for the sake of completenessthis includes simple example that generates an exception with an argument you can safely skip the remainder of this section if desired because the information is covered in more detail later in the book this example also appears with the downloadable source code as exceptionwitharguments py