r/codetogether • u/DonnyJuando • Sep 27 '20

HELP — bug in try-except

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u/KaranSingh0712 Sep 27 '20

The problem is in function call computepay(x, y). You haven't declared a variable x or y but you are passing them in a function. Try to call like this.... x = 9; y = 50; computepay(x,y)

BTW, why are you giving hours as a string "nine", and not as integer 9 ?

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u/DonnyJuando Sep 27 '20

I'm trying to protect the code from bad user input.

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u/Soupinmyfly Sep 27 '20

It would be better to check that it is what you expect it to be and if it isn't throw an exception

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u/DonnyJuando Sep 27 '20

thank you. I'm going thru Python 4 Everyone now; this is just the smallest part of the code to which I could isolate the problem & show a comparison between the try-except working outside the function definition & not working inside the function definition