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

Isach Stevik
Isach Stevik
1,154 Points
Posted by Isach Stevik
Isach Stevik
1,154 Points

Using an External Function practice

Can't seem to get this additional exception to work properly. I'm not really sure what I need to do to fix this?

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(massage)
except CommunicationError:
    print("An error occurred attemting connect to Twitter. Please try again!")
except MassageTooLongError as err:
    print("Ho no! Your massage was too long ({})".format(err))

2 Answers

adrian miranda
adrian miranda
13,561 Points
adrian miranda
adrian miranda
13,561 Points

The one thing I see is a typo. Look closely at the spelling of "message".