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Start your free trialThomas Suerth
1,507 PointsThe code in the using_a_function.py is making use of an external function named tweet. The code here is intended to ma
"""
This is importing a function named `tweet` from a file
that we unfortunately don't have access to change.
You use it like so:
>>> tweet("Hello this is my tweet")
If the function cannot connect to Twitter,
the function will raise a `CommunicationError`
If the message is too long,
the function will raise a `MessageTooLongError`
"""
from twitter import (
tweet,
MessageTooLongError,
CommunicationError,
)
message = input("What would you like to tweet? ")
# Your code here
def tweet(message):
message = ("Hello this is my tweet")
print(message)
tweet(message)
1 Answer
matth89
17,826 PointsHey Thomas,
There's no need to redefine the tweet function. It's already defined, and being imported from elsewhere. The first step of this challenge is just asking you to call the tweet function, with the message variable being passed in as its argument.