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Georgios Vivilakis
Python Development Techdegree Student 3,020 PointsHaving a hard time on this. Any inputs? Not sure if I understand the problem...
def suggest(product_idea):
if product_idea != 3:
raise ValueError ("Not sufficient")
return product_idea + "inator"
1 Answer
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Steven Parker
230,688 PointsYou're close, but you need to test the length of the product idea and not the string itself.
Also, you don't want to check for just not 3 characters, but for anything less than 3 characters.