[Tutor] Do not understand why I am getting "EOFError: EOF when reading a line".

[boB Stepp]

I think I now understand why I am getting this EOF exception.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:16 PM, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:
> My current get_input() function:
>
> ======================================================
> def get_input():
>     '''Get string input from the user and convert it to an integer.  This
>     integer is returned to the caller.
>
>     :num_sides:  Number of sides for the displayed grid.'''
>
>     while True:
>         try:
>             num_sides = int(input("Number of sides = "))
>             return num_sides
>         except ValueError:
>             print("'Number of sides' must be a positive integer.  Please enter "
>                     "an integer.")
> =======================================================

Since the try/except is within a while loop, the input tries to read
more input after the ValueError occurs.  Of course, I don't have any
more input strings stored in the StringIO buffer, so it sees this as
an end of file condition.

But now I do not see how to test get_input() to check for the
ValueError.  Any suggestions?

boB