Your own exception hierarchy in Python

Python interview exercise on Errors & Context Managers, difficulty 3 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example, or cold in Interview mode with the example hidden; the tests run the moment you do.

Define ConfigError, and two subclasses: MissingKey(key), whose message is "missing key: port", and InvalidValue(key, value), whose message is "invalid value for port: 'abc'" (value shown with repr). Then write get_port(config): the "port" entry as an int between 1 and 65535, raising the right error otherwise. Callers can catch ConfigError to handle both.

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