[Tutor] Issue with Code [SOLVED]

[Alan Gauld]

On 01/05/16 05:20, Olaoluwa Thomas wrote:
> Thank you so much, Alan. That fixed it (See Script 2[SOLVED] below).
> 
> For the purpose of record-keeping, I'm pasting the entire code of all
> scripts below as I should have done from the very beginning.
> 

thanks :-)

> P.S. How were you able to open attachments with the restrictions on this
> mailing list?

The two code attachments made it to my reader.
But that seems to be a fairly arbitrary occurence.
The screen shot didn't make it.

Some make it, others don't. I don't know the exact
set of rules that determine when an attachment
gets through!

> Script 2 [SOLVED]
> hours = float(raw_input ('How many hours do you work?\n'))
> rate = float(raw_input ('What is your hourly rate?\n'))
> if hours > 40:
>     gross = ((hours - 40) * (rate * 1.5)) + (40 * rate)
> elif hours >= 0 and hours <= 40:
>     gross = hours * rate
> print "Your Gross pay is "+str(round(gross, 4))

You could have left it as else rather than elif,
but otherwise that's fine.

> I'm gonna add Try and Except to make it more responsive.

I'm not sure what you mean by responsive? The only
place try/except could/should be applied is round
the float conversions. But it only makes sense if
you put them inside a loop so you can force the
user to try again if the input is invalid.

Something like:

while True:
   try:
     value = float(input(...))
     break
   except ValueError:
     print 'warning message....'
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