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Python Python Basics Functions and Looping Raise an Exception

Posted by christophgutsche
christophgutsche
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Hello, I have a problem with this challenge...

The Editor says, that I can't compare int with str. That makes sense to me. But I do not know how I can compare the string of "product_idea" with the 3 characters... Could you please help me?

suggestinator.py 
def suggest(product_idea):
    if product_idea < 3:
        raise ValueError ("...")  
    return product_idea + "inator"

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there, christophgutsche ! It might have been a while since you've seen this video, but there was a method covered there around 0:21 called len. You can get the length of any string by passing it into that method. Here's an example:

course = "Python"
course_length = len(course)

#course_length will now be equal to 6 because that is the length of "Python"

I think you can get it with this hint, but let me know if you're still stuck! :sparkles: