Suppose that I have a variable initial_cash = 'a'
. I want to check if this is convertible to float else I want to raise error for that I've written code below:
initial_cash = 'a'
try:
initial_cash = float(initial_cash)
except TypeError:
raise TypeError("Initial cash amount should be float or int")
I am unable to raise exception instead I get ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'a'
. What am I doing wrong due to which the expectation is not caught?
CodePudding user response:
Your answer is in the error message - ValueError
. you should expect ValueError
instead of TypeError
.