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Python Python Basics Functions and Looping Raising Exceptions

Taiyan Paige
Taiyan Paige
275 Points
Posted by Taiyan Paige
Taiyan Paige
275 Points

Number of people Wouldn't you want the if statement in the function to account for >= 2 people?

If there's no point in including 1 person (since you're splitting the check) why not just make the default values be 2 and higher? There would also be no point in having half of a person (1.5) and would relieve another potential error, correct?

Fergus Clare
Fergus Clare
12,035 Points
Fergus Clare
Fergus Clare
12,035 Points

If you account for >=2, what happens if you only have one person? If there is one person, don't split the check so ideally, you'd have something along the lines of:

if (people >= 1):
   split_check(check) #assuming you have function to split check amount/2
else:
   print(check) #or total dollar amount

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

Generating the exception when the number is <=1 does allow two or more already.

If you wanted to be sure that the given number has no fractional part, you could have an additional test:

if number_of_people != math.floor(number_of_people ):
   raise ValueError("You can only have whole numbers of people!")