On Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 10:55:57 AM UTC-7, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Sep 2015, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > > > I would use: > > > > if n not in ZZ: > > raise ValueError(...) > > Seems easy. But to make sure: does this work in all cases? I.e. raw Python > ints, Sage Integers, maybe something else too? At least QQ(3) in NN seems > to work. > > How about positive integers? "n-1 in NN" gives bad error message if n is > for example string. "n in NN and n>0"? >
try: NN(n) except ValueError: handle the error.... or since you want to rule out n=0: try: NN(n-1) except (ValueError, TypeError): handle the error... -- John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.