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Ross Peace
Courses Plus Student 17,401 PointsOops! It loops like Task 1 is no longer passing try except
You're doing great! Just one more task but it's a bigger one. Right now, we turn everything into a float. That's great so long as we're getting numbers or numbers as a string. We should handle cases where we get a non-number, though. Add a try block before where you turn your arguments into floats. Then add an except to catch the possible ValueError. Inside the except block, return None. If you're following the structure from the videos, add an else: for your final return of the added floats.
def add(num1 , num2):
try:
num3 = int(num1)
num4 = int(num2)
except ValueError:
return None
else:
return float(num1) + float(num2)
2 Answers
Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsThe problem is that you're trying to convert them to ints in your try block. Instead, you should convert them to floats, like this:
def add(num1 , num2):
try:
num3 = float(num1)
num4 = float(num2)
except ValueError:
return None
else:
# They're already floats, so you don't have to convert them again
return num1 + num2
Ross Peace
Courses Plus Student 17,401 PointsOh
Thanks you
That works :)