[Tutor] Just started Python

[Steve Willoughby]

On 27-Apr-11 14:35, Edgar Almonte wrote:
> try this :
>
>
>
>   model=raw_input("What kind of car do you drive?")
>   gallons=raw_input("How many gallons have you driven?")
>   number1 = float (gallons)
>   miles=raw_input("How many miles have you driven?")
>   number2 = float (miles)
>
>
>   try:
> number1 = float (gallons)
> number2 = float (miles)

Indentation error aside, you'll never reach that exception because the 
previous number1 = float(gallons) would raise one if the input was 
wrong.  Either move the try..except block to enclose the first one, or 
wait until the try...except block to do the typecast.
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