My code for the suggestion task works in my editor but not the one in the course. I'm not sure what to do?

they ask you to "Can you please raise a ValueError if the product_idea is less than 3 characters long? product_idea is a string. Thanks in advance!" so this is the only thing you have to do for this task:

def suggest(product_idea): if len(product_idea) < 3: raise ValueError("The name is too short! Please try again.") return product_idea + "inator"

Before I try to help, can you confirm

def suggest(product_idea): 
    return product_idea + "inator"

product_idea = input("What is your product idea? ") 
try: 
    if len(product_idea) <= 3: 
        raise ValueError("The name is too short!") 
except ValueError as err:

    print("Oh no, {} Please try again.".format(err))

    else:
        suggestion = suggest(product_idea) 
print(suggestion)

☝ Is this how your code should look?

This is a simple option that I used, and it worked just fine.

def suggest(product_idea): if len(product_idea) < 3: raise ValueError("{} is too short, try again.".format(product_idea)) return product_idea + "inator"