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Python

Posted by Sabry Salman
Sabry Salman
2,465 Points

Key Error - what does this mean

I was doing some practice on lesson on 'raising' errors and exceptions, but I noticed a new error called "key error" appearing

import math

def split_check (amount, people):
    if attendees <= 1 :
        raise ValueError("more that one person needed to split check")
    return math.ceil(amount/people)

try:
    value = float(input("how much? "))
    attendees= int(input("how many? "))
    amount_due = split_check (value, attendees)

except ValueError as err: 
    print ("oops, that wasnt expected")
    print ("({ })".format(err))

else:
    print ("the cost per person is" , amount_due)

import math

def split_check (amount, people):
    if attendees <= 1 :
        raise ValueError("more that one person needed to split check")
    return math.ceil(amount/people)

try:
    value = float(input("how much? "))
    attendees= int(input("how many? "))
    amount_due = split_check (value, attendees)

except ValueError as err: 
    print ("oops, that wasnt expected")
    print ("({ })".format(err))                         <------------------this line here

else:
    print ("the cost per person is" , amount_due)

any help?

John Lack-Wilson
John Lack-Wilson
8,181 Points
John Lack-Wilson
John Lack-Wilson
8,181 Points

Hi Sabry, its very difficult to debug your code in the way it is formatted. If you could either share your workspace or copy and paste the code in here in code formatting we may be able to help. You can do code formatting by typing three backticks (```) before and after your code.