[Tutor] ASCII Conversion

[David Kidd]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 15:50, Michael Lewis <mjolewis at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... However, if I pass in a string, it's converted to ASCII and will
> still satisfy the if statement and print out value. How do I ensure that a
> string is caught as a ValueError instead of being converted?

It depends on what you want to do if you catch a string. If you just
want to end the function, you could just try returning on the
exception, rather than passing. This will stop the string from being
processed any further.