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Posted by Paul Ngwendere
Paul Ngwendere
9,138 Points

Raising exceptionns

i tried running this code and it did but it keeps on returning "good idea" even though there are less than 3 characters..where did i go wrong? def suggest(product_idea): if len(product_idea) < 3: raise ValueError("More characters needed.") return product_idea + "inator" try: users_idea = str(input("What's your idea? ")) except ValueError as err: print("Try again..") print("({})".format(err))
else: print("good idea!")

1 Answer

Donald Morales
Donald Morales
15,983 Points

Hello Paul!

The reason the code defaults to the else statement block is because your suggest() function isn't in the try block:

def suggest(product_idea):
    if len(product_idea) < 3:
        raise ValueError("More characters needed.")
    else:
        return product_idea + "inator"


try:
    users_idea = input("What's your idea? ")
except ValueError as err:
    print("Try again..")
    print("({})".format(err))
else:
    print("good idea!")

Placing the the function there will get the code running as expected:

try:
    users_idea = input("What's your idea? ")
    suggest(users_idea)
Paul Ngwendere
Paul Ngwendere
9,138 Points

Thank you Donald..It's now working..