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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Shopping List Take Three

William CHOE
William CHOE
788 Points
Posted by William CHOE
William CHOE
788 Points

Position question

I have some problems understanding the part,which Kenneth use the input by variable"position" , when i press ENTER , what did the function return ? Is it NONE? or something else? can someone help me out?

1 Answer

Jakob Hansen
Jakob Hansen
13,746 Points
Jakob Hansen
Jakob Hansen
13,746 Points

when you press enter, you just enter a "new line character" to the input, but it doesn't really matter what you entered, it could have been any non-integer in this case, because the except clause gets run when you press enter ( or any non-integer value, because we get a valueError, we didn't enter a number,) and we set position to None, then in the else clause, we just append the item, and append adds the item to the end of the list.