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Python Python Collections (Retired) Lists Redux Disemvoweled

Jeff Williams
Jeff Williams
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Posted by Jeff Williams
Jeff Williams
1,111 Points

What do 'try' and 'except' do?

What is the importance of having the 'try:' on line 10 and the 'except:' on line 12?

1 Answer

Matthew Hill
Matthew Hill
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Matthew Hill
Matthew Hill
7,799 Points

The 'while True:' part of the program ensures that it will keep looping through the list and removing each vowel, however, this will continue forever as True will always be True. Eventually all the vowels will have been removed. When the program tries to list.remove('a') and there is no 'a' in the list, it will raise an exception, in this case a ValueError.

A try/remove block will do the try part unless it finds an exception. This means that the program will keep looping round and .remove()ing all the vowels until there are none left, once there are none left a ValueError will be raised and this will take it to the except block which contains a break, the break gets you out of the infinite 'while True:' loop.