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Python The Problem

Posted by Jennifer Johnson
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Jennifer Johnson
Python Development Techdegree Student 1,376 Points

Can someone update this challenge? The links in the teacher's notes lead to a whole track and not a specific video.

Nothing to add outside of subject ^

1 Answer

jmac pd
jmac pd
11,490 Points
jmac pd
jmac pd
11,490 Points

Put this as an answer instead of a comment =)

You'll want to create a function to get the name and age. This way you can try and except the value error if they don't enter an "int" value type and then return the values

def ask_name():
    while True:
        try:
            age = int(input('please enter your age: '))
            year = int(input('what year were you born: '))
            return age, year
        except ValueError:
            print("please enter a number")

now if you can call this function anytime to ask the name.

age, year = ask_name()
print(age)
print(year)

you could break up the function into two parts:

def ask_name():
    pass
def ask_year():
    pass

if that makes more sense for what you are doing.

Does this help? Let me know if you need help with the math.