function invocation with except handling DEMO

#quote from MIT 'introduction to computation and programming using python, Revised' 
def getRatios(vect1, vect2):
    """Assumes: vect1 and vect2 are lists of equal length of numbers
       Returns : a list containing the meaningful values of
                 vect1[i]/vect2[i]"""
    ratios = []
    for index in range(len(vect1)):
        try:
            ratios.append(vect1[index]/float(vect2[index]))
        except ZeroDivisionError:
            ratios.append(float('nan')) #nan = Not a Number
        except:
            raise ValueError('getRatios called with bad arguments')
    return ratios

try:
    print getRatios([1.0, 2.0, 7.0, 6.0], [1.0, 2.0, 0.0, 3.0])
    print getRatios([], [])
    print getRatios([1.0, 2.0], [3.0])
except ValueError, msg:
    print msg

%run "C:\Users\Administrator\test.py"
[1.0, 1.0, nan, 2.0]
[]
getRatios called with bad arguments