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Python Python Basics (2015) Number Game App Squared

Posted by Makan Fofana
Makan Fofana
Courses Plus Student 1,773 Points

Having some trouble.

I have been stuck on this for a while now.

squared.py 
def squared(num):
  try:
    if num == int():
      return (num ** 2)
  except ValueError:
      return (num * len("num"))

1 Answer

andi mitre
STAFF
andi mitre
Treehouse Guest Teacher
andi mitre
andi mitre
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Makan, very close..the challenge wants you to convert num to int(). To do so you have to pass the value num inside the int() function. Also in your exception you can remove the quotes around num because you want to take the length of any value passed as num not the literal string "num". Hope that helps!

def squared(num):
  try:
      return (int(num) ** 2)
  except ValueError:
      return (num * len(num))

Cheers!