Why won't my ValueError is the tickets are greater than the remaining tickets run?

My code seems to just jump to the except ValueError rule instead of executing my raise ValueError if num_tickets > tickets_remaining.

Any help would be appreciated.

while tickets_remaining >= 1: users_name = input("Hi! What is your name? ") num_tickets = input("Hi {}! How many tickets would you like? ".format(users_name)) #expect a ValueError to happen and handle it. try: num_tickets = int(num_tickets) if num_tickets > tickets_remaining: raise ValueError("There are only {} tickets remaining".format(tickets_remaining)) #raise a ValueError if the request is for more tickets than are available except ValueError as err: print("Oh no, we ran into an error! Please try again".format(err )) else: total_price = (num_tickets * TICKET_PRICE) print("Adam, your total will be ${} ".format(total_price)) confirm = input("Would you like to proceed? Y/N ") if confirm.upper() == "Y": print("Sold!!! ")