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Python

Posted by Lazarus Mbofana
Lazarus Mbofana
10,941 Points

python basics

I've made a function that creates brand new product names using "artificial intelligence".

I have a problem though, people keep on adding product ideas that are too short. It makes the suggestions look bad.

Can you please raise a ValueError if the product_idea is less than 3 characters long? product_idea is a string. Thanks in advance!

priyanka shukla
priyanka shukla
3,051 Points

i didn't understand your first line although considering that product ideas will be stored in a list you try the following

product_ideas=[]
def add_product_ideas(idea):
  if len(idea)<3:
    print("Sry your idea is too short!!")
  else:
    product_ideas.append(idea)
data=input("your product idea :")
add_product_ideas(data)

i assumed that your are already using while loop in your function

1 Answer

Pete P
Pete P
7,613 Points
Pete P
Pete P
7,613 Points

Check out section 8.4 on https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/errors.html

It shows how to use the 'raise' statement to raise an exception. In this case, you want to 'raise ValueError'

Hopefully that helps!