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## Handling disconnections and multiple clients { #handling-disconnections-and-multiple-clients }

When a WebSocket connection is closed, the `await websocket.receive_text()` will raise a `WebSocketDisconnect` exception, which you can then catch and handle like in this example.

{* ../../docs_src/websockets/tutorial003_py39.py hl[79:81] *}

To try it out: