Sometimes it is necessary to raise an exception. When you do this, you should always include a meaningful error message to indicate what the source of the error is. This makes your code more readable and helps significantly with debugging. For situations where you know that the error source will be a certain type, you can choose to raise one of the built in error types, but should still include a meaningful message.
This particular exercise requires that you use the raise statement to "throw" a ValueError
when your largest_product()
function receives invalid input. The tests will only pass if you both raise
the exception
and include a message with it. Feel free to reuse your code from the series
exercise!
To raise a ValueError
with a message, write the message as an argument to the exception
type:
# span of numbers is longer than number series
raise ValueError("span must be smaller than string length")
# span of number is negative
raise ValueError("span must not be negative")
# series includes non-number input
raise ValueError("digits input must only contain digits")