Returning errors
Time to try out the other approach for error handling.
Revise the snake_case() function to intentionally produce an error if an incorrect data type is used.
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate Python for Developers
Exercise instructions
- Check whether the data type of the
textargument is a stringstr. - Inside the
elseblock, produce aTypeError()to prevent the script running and return a descriptive message.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
def snake_case(text):
# Check the data type
____:
clean_text = text.replace(" ", "_")
clean_text = clean_text.lower()
else:
# Return a TypeError error if the wrong data type was used
____("The snake_case() function expects a string as an argument, please check the data type provided.")
snake_case("User Name 187")