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Python Practice Creating and Using Functions in Python Practice Functions Use an External Function

Erin Jedlikowski
Erin Jedlikowski
473 Points
Posted by Erin Jedlikowski
Erin Jedlikowski
473 Points

I'm stuck on challenge - entering a 2nd exception and passing in some text.

Feel like I'm missing something basic here...

using_a_function.py 
"""
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
try:
    tweet(message) 
except CommunicationError as err:
    print("An error occurred attempting to connect to Twitter. Please try again.".format(err))
except MessageTooLongError as err:
    print("Oh no! Your message was too long. ({}).".format.err)
Rutendo Chaurura
Rutendo Chaurura
6,809 Points

its correct. The code works just fine. try running it again!

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

You're really super close here. Your code passes the first 2 steps just fine, but it hangs up on the 3rd. This is because on the last line, you're trying to access a property on the format function called err, but Python doesn't support that kind of thing. err is the error object, so you want to pass it as a parameter to the format function. A great example of how to do this is just 2 lines higher in your code, on the line where you print a message about a CommunicationError. Also, it isn't really necessary on that line, so if you delete it from that line and fix it on the last line, your code passes the challenge just fine. Great job!