This document provides an overview of exceptions in Python. It discusses that Python uses exceptions to communicate errors and anomalies. The try statement provides Python's exception handling mechanism and can have a try clause followed by except or finally clauses. Built-in exception classes that are subclasses of Exception include AttributeError, EnvironmentError, ImportError, LookupError, NameError, SyntaxError, and others. The document provides an example of using try, except, and finally clauses to handle exceptions occurring when connecting to a database and committing an INSERT statement. It was presented by Shameena V as part of a mentoring program through Baabtra-Mentoring Partner.