changes value to type error

diff --git a/python/testing/Readme.md b/python/testing/Readme.md
index 12bb6c2b628a0868f20136a7b2b629c024184c1d..30afea66c240f17214aa46c2b0c60ff9f253551c 100644 (file)
--- a/python/testing/Readme.md
+++ b/python/testing/Readme.md
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ def mean(numlist):
     try:
         total = sum(numlist)
         length = len(numlist)
-    except ValueError:
-        print "The number list was not a list of numbers."
+    except TypeError:
+        raise TypeError("The number list was not a list of numbers.")
     except:
         print "There was a problem evaluating the number list."
     return total/length
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ def mean(numlist):
     try:
         total = sum(numlist)
         length = len(numlist)
-    except ValueError:
-        print "The number list was not a list of numbers."
+    except TypeError:
+        raise TypeError("The number list was not a list of numbers.")
     except:
         print "There was a problem evaluating the number list."
     return total/length
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ def mean(numlist):
     try:
         total = sum(numlist)
         length = len(numlist)
-    except ValueError:
-        print "The number list was not a list of numbers."
+    except TypeError:
+        raise TypeError("The number list was not a list of numbers.")
     except:
         print "There was a problem evaluating the number list."
     return total/length

diff --git a/python/testing/mean.py b/python/testing/mean.py
index c04a0f1d43c26cf8eb16fb0bbcb31714e3a13957..887484defabb9d68a7f99fbd8b600a91d712d169 100644 (file)
--- a/python/testing/mean.py
+++ b/python/testing/mean.py
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ def mean(numlist):
     try:
         total = sum(numlist)
         length = len(numlist)
-    except ValueError:
-        print "The number list was not a list of numbers."
+    except TypeError:
+        raise TypeError("The number list was not a list of numbers.")
     except:
         print "There was a problem evaluating the number list."
     return total/length