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Python

Posted by Mohamed Ali
Mohamed Ali
2,923 Points

raise Error

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!

the code is:

def suggest(product_idea) : return product_idea + "inator"

Eric Harris
Eric Harris
2,391 Points

You could do something like this?

def suggest(product_idea) : 
    if len(product_idea) < 3:
        print("Please enter something larger than 3 chars")
   else:
       return product_idea + "inator"

1 Answer

Sergio Andrés Herrera Velásquez
PLUS
Sergio Andrés Herrera Velásquez
Courses Plus Student 23,765 Points
Sergio Andrés Herrera Velásquez
Sergio Andrés Herrera Velásquez
Courses Plus Student 23,765 Points

Hi, I came into the same issue; however after reading the issue again, I realized that I had to make whatever came into the product_idea parameter entered in the function is a string, not any other data type, so what I did and what worked for me was using the str method(?) so that whatever we received was treated as a string, kind of what we did do with numbers entered by the input command

We normally do this: ```(int(input("Please enter the check: ")) or (float(input("Please enter the check: "))

So what I did was

def suggest(product_idea) : if len(str(product_idea)) < 3: print("Please enter something larger than 3 chars") else: return product_idea + "inator"

which forced  the result of product_idea  to be a string, no matter what value( even numerical values we put in