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Python Python Basics (2015) Logic in Python Try and Except

Posted by kk kk
kk kk
152 Points

how to solve this,please answer

please help

trial.py 
def add(a,b):
    try:
            a=float(a)
            b=float(b)
            return a+b
            except ValueError 
            return none

2 Answers

behar
behar
10,799 Points

You super close! But you seem to have some indentation errors. Remember that everytime we write a ":" we want to indent 4 blocks for the next instruction. You have done way to many indents after your try:. Secondly you need to have a ":" after you except ValueError. And it needs to be on the same line as try:.. It may be simpler just to see the code:

def add(a,b):
    try:
        a=float(a)
        b=float(b)
        return a+b
    except ValueError:
        return None
kk kk
kk kk
152 Points

thank you so much

Tobiah Woeltjen
Tobiah Woeltjen
874 Points
Tobiah Woeltjen
Tobiah Woeltjen
874 Points

I was having trouble with this question too. Have seen other answers, but this is the first one that worked.