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Python

Posted by ryanosten
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ryanosten
PHP Development Techdegree Student 29,615 Points

It looks to me like adding the 'as err' code on the exception results in ugly error if you enter a string instead of int

Now instead of 'Thats not a valid value', you get:

'Oh no thats not a valid value. Try again... could not convert string to float: 'whatever your string was'

Second line is ugly and confusing to a user. How would you cover this? You don't know what the err will be, so simply printing it out can be risky.

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

You could catch a specific kind of error like so:

try:
    # ... code goes here ...
except ValueError:
    print('Oh no that is not a number!')

The fourth line is only executed if the code in the try block causes a ValueError. Python returns a ValueError when you try to run something like int('a')