python basics try and except challenge task 2 of 3

Hi Maggie,

It seems that you may have misinterpreted what the Task 2 instructions are asking. It is asking you to

Convert your arguments to floats before you add them together.

Instead, you have created new variables with the same name as the arguments in the function. These are actually two different things.

You have the right idea on what needs to be done, just not quite in the right place. You need to convert the arguments to floats inside of the function. You already have the correct code block to add, now you just need to 'combine' what you did above to what is in the function, like this:

def add(num1, num2):
    return float(num1) + float(num2)

Hope that helps and makes sense. :)
Keep Coding!

EDIT: After reading what needs to be done for Task 3, the above code, while correct, isn't what should be used. So, you have all the correct code, just move those first two lines inside of the function. So, I guess for task 2, you'll should use the more verbose (least DRY) code of:

def add(num1, num2):
    num1 = float(num1)
    num2 = float(num2)
    return num1 + num2

Sorry.