Victor A Hernandez
1,957 PointsHow to raise an Exception. What I'm doing wrong with my coding? This is my code:def suggest product_idea: return pro
def suggest product_idea:
return product_idea + "inator"
if product_idea <3:
raise ValueError(" ")
3 Answers
Victor A Hernandez
1,957 PointsThanks Cameron, I appreciate you help.
Cameron Childres
Treehouse Moderator 11,543 PointsHi Victor,
Some things to point out:
- The parentheses originally included in the function are necessary to set the parameters, don't remove them
- A string and an integer can't be compared with the ">" operator, so you'll need to use the len() function on
product_ideato convert it to a number representing its length - Your "if" statement is outside of the function -- we want the error to be raised as part of the function, before anything is returned
I hope this helps steer you in the right direction! Let me know if you need any further assistance.
Victor A Hernandez
1,957 PointsHonestly, I don't get the idea.
Cameron Childres
Treehouse Moderator 11,543 PointsOkay, I'll go through the code from the challenge with my points from above in mind:
def suggest(product_idea):
return product_idea + "inator"
This defines a function that will return whatever we pass to it plus "inator". The challenge wants us to raise an error if the string passed to it is shorter than 3 characters. We want it included in the function, and we want to raise the error before the function returns the result. Since code runs from top to bottom we'll put it here:
def suggest(product_idea):
#raise error here
return product_idea + "inator"
The error needs to be raised only when the amount of characters in product_idea is less than 3. An "if" statement is perfect for that, but if we try to compare a string to a number it won't work. We need to convert the string to a number representing its total amount of characters (or length) which is done with the function len():
def suggest(product_idea):
if len(product_idea) < 3:
raise ValueError
return product_idea + "inator"