Catching an exception in a variable

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Hello

try:
    a = 1 / 0
except ZeroDivisionError as ex:
   pass

ex

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<pyshell#49>", line 1, in <module>
   ex
NameError: name 'ex' is not defined


Why variable ex doesn't exist ?
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