Why does my script keep crashing when I divide by zero? The traceback never tells me anything useful.
Your script stops because it is asking the machine to divide a number by zero.
Division by zero has no defined answer in arithmetic, so most languages refuse to guess. The moment your program evaluates something like 5 / 0 it raises a runtime error instead of returning a value, and that error is the message you keep seeing.
The fix is to check the denominator before the division runs. For example:
if denominator != 0: result = numerator / denominator else: print("Denominator is zero — skipping.")
Guard the call and the traceback disappears. Ask again if the denominator is coming from somewhere you cannot control.