I'm trying to write a code to edit a list and make it a palindrome.
Everything is working except my input still gives me one error. When I enter a non-int into get_number_2
, it crashes.
def get_number():
num = raw_input("Please enter number between 100,000 and 1,000,0000: ")
if not num.isdigit():
print "---------------------------"
print "Invalid input: numbers only"
print "---------------------------"
my_main()
else:
return num
def get_number_2(n):
num = input("Please confirm the number you have entered: ")
if num != int(n):
print "--------------------"
print "Entries do not match"
print "--------------------"
my_main()
else:
return num
I use the input from get_number_2
for the rest of the code as get_number
doesn't work when I check if its between two numbers.
Is there any way i can validate if input is an int in get_number_2
so that I can get rid of get_number
?
You also should use raw_input
and int(num)
:
def get_number_2(n):
num = raw_input("Please confirm the number you have entered: ")
if not num.isdigit() or int(num) != n:
print "--------------------"
print "Entries do not match"
print "--------------------"
my_main()
else:
return int(num)
Notes:
- I assume that the parameter
n
is an int, or to check this you could change the if to: if not num.isdigit() or not n.isdigit() or int(num) != int(n)
.
- By using
isdigit
we check if it is an integer before really converting it to int
.
Write program that handles exception. If user enters not valid integer, it throws ValueError
exception:
try:
a = int(b)
except ValueError:
print "Unable to interpret your input as a number"
you must update your question like this:
def get_number_2(n):
num = input("Please confirm the number you have entered: ")
try:
if num != int(n):
print "--------------------"
print "Entries do not match"
print "--------------------"
my_main()
else:
return num
except ValueError:
print "Unable to interpret your input as a number"
You can't do num != int(n)
because it will attempt to call int(n)
which is invalid if n
is not in fact an integer.
The proper way to do this is to use try
and except
try:
n = int(n)
except ValueError:
print 'Entry is not an integer.'
#handle this in some way
Edit: Also in Python 2.x please use raw_input()
instead of input()
. input()
gives very odd results if you don't know what it's doing.
from operator import attrgetter
num0 = input()
if not attrgetter('isdigit')(num0)():
print("that's not a number")