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Python Python Basics Functions and Looping Raise an Exception

Deonte Meriwether
Deonte Meriwether
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Posted by Deonte Meriwether
Deonte Meriwether
1,513 Points

value error format

Im having trouble raising value errors and creating the condition when I need to calculate the number of characters inpu

suggestinator.py 
def suggest(product_idea):
   if len(product_idea) < 3 raise ValueError("Too short try again")

    return product_idea + "inator"

2 Answers

Daniel Turato
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Daniel Turato
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Daniel Turato
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Raising the error should be on it's own separate line like so:

def suggest(product_idea):
   if len(product_idea) < 3:
       raise ValueError("Too short try again")

    return product_idea + "inator"
Deonte Meriwether
Deonte Meriwether
1,513 Points
Deonte Meriwether
Deonte Meriwether
1,513 Points

Oh I see now. Thank you for helping me with this one Daniel! It seems like I was so close but still so far from solving this one :)

Zach Newman
Zach Newman
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Zach Newman
Zach Newman
1,138 Points

I'm having trouble on this one as well with the formatting and applying what I need following the example set by daniel, when I run it I get this:

ERROR: test_exception_not_raised (main.TestRaiseExecution)

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 24, in test_exception_not_raised File "", line 3, in suggest ValueError: Too Short, try again.

======================================================================

FAIL: test_exception_raised (main.TestRaiseExecution)

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 32, in test_exception_raised AssertionError: ValueError not raised : I passed in 'a' and expected a ValueError to be raised

Ran 2 tests in 0.000s

FAILED (failures=1, errors=1)

I'm not quite where I'm going wrong