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Python

Posted by Morningstar Ndlovu
Morningstar Ndlovu
3,732 Points

Im stuck here Can you please help control that

Unfortunately the connection to Twitter using our function seems to be pretty spotty. Can you please help control that messaging to the user of our application? If there is a CommunicationError raised can you please handle it and output the text: "An error occurred attempting to connect to Twitter. Please try again!" " This is importing a function named tweet from a file that we unfortunately don't have access to change.

You use it like so:

tweet("Hello this is my tweet")

If the function cannot connect to Twitter, the function will raise a CommunicationError If the message is too long, the function will raise a MessageTooLongError """ from twitter import ( tweet, MessageTooLongError, CommunicationError, )

message = input("What would you like to tweet? ")

Your code here

the following is my code try: Message(tweet) except: CommunicationError print("comm...")

Daesy Stephens
Daesy Stephens
4,590 Points

try: tweet(message) except ComunicationError as err: print("An error occurred attempting to connect to Twitter. Please try again!".format(err))

5 Answers

Alan Ayoub
Alan Ayoub
40,294 Points
Alan Ayoub
Alan Ayoub
40,294 Points

First, I declared CommunicationError with the string content:

CommunicationError = "An error occurred attempting to connect to Twitter. Please try again!"

Next, I wrote my try/except block like so:

try: 
    tweet(message) 
except: 
    print(CommunicationError)
Benyamin Kohanchi
Benyamin Kohanchi
Courses Plus Student 2,342 Points

I finally understand it. Thank you!

Jason Nutt
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Jason Nutt
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Jason Nutt
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so, what was the final answer? I tried the same code:

Your code here

tweet(message)

CommunicationError = "An error occurred attempting to connect to Twitter. Please try again!"

try: tweet(message) except: print(CommunicationError)

Laura Owens
Laura Owens
15,044 Points
Laura Owens
Laura Owens
15,044 Points

CommunicationError is part of the twitter import, so you probably shouldn't declare the message in a variable named CommunicationError.

I used a While loop that passed the Test Results, but didn't pass the code challenge. :( Here is what passed for me:

try: tweet(message) except CommunicationError: print("An error occurred attempting to connect to Twitter. Please try again!")

Patrick Bain
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Patrick Bain
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CommunicationError = "An error occurred attempting to connect to Twitter. Please try again!"

try: tweet(message) except: print(CommunicationError)

Bonnie McInturf
Bonnie McInturf
2,178 Points
Bonnie McInturf
Bonnie McInturf
2,178 Points

Just documenting that the following worked, thanks to Alan Ayoub on Apr 23, 2019: 

CommunicationError = "An error occurred attempting to connect to Twitter. Please try again!"


message = input("What would you like to tweet?  ")

try: 
    tweet(message) 
except: 
    print(CommunicationError)