## 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.

=== "Python 3.9+"

    ```Python hl_lines="79-81"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/websockets/tutorial003_py39.py!}
    ```

=== "Python 3.8+"

            - iter_json
            - send_text
            - send_bytes
            - send_json
            - close

When a client disconnects, a `WebSocketDisconnect` exception is raised, you can catch it.

You can import it directly form `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import WebSocketDisconnect
```

::: fastapi.WebSocketDisconnect

## WebSockets - additional classes