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Dennis Callahan
375 PointsNeed help with raising exception coding challenge.
Not sure where I'm going wrong...here's the ask "raise a ValueError if the product_idea is less than 3 characters long? any ideas why my code won't work? Thanks for any help!
product_idea is a string. suggest(product_idea): if product_idea len <3: raise ValueError return product_idea + "inator"
2 Answers
Bernhard Chis
3,296 PointsHey buddy, I had the same problem as you.
I was not used to the indentation of Python by the time of the challenge. Nevertheless, after spending a minute just looking at the code it became obvious that I failed to indent properly :) Perhaps you forgot 'def' or some minor change, you'll probably find it if you haven't already.
I passed with the following code, which is very similar to yours:
def suggest(product_idea):
if len(product_idea) < 3:
raise ValueError
return product_idea + "inator"
Christopher Gunawan
10,754 Pointstry wrapping your code with (place above the first line of your code). It will help make your code more readable to people viewing the discussion. For example:
code here
Make sure you end the code with ``` in a new line.
Dennis Callahan
375 PointsDennis Callahan
375 PointsAnswered my own question from using community...had the 2nd line backward
def suggest(product_idea): if len(product_idea) < 3: raise ValueError return product_idea + "inator"