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Taiyan Paige
275 PointsNumber of people Wouldn't you want the if statement in the function to account for >= 2 people?
If there's no point in including 1 person (since you're splitting the check) why not just make the default values be 2 and higher? There would also be no point in having half of a person (1.5) and would relieve another potential error, correct?
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Steven Parker
230,688 PointsGenerating the exception when the number is <=1
does allow two or more already.
If you wanted to be sure that the given number has no fractional part, you could have an additional test:
if number_of_people != math.floor(number_of_people ):
raise ValueError("You can only have whole numbers of people!")
Fergus Clare
12,120 PointsFergus Clare
12,120 PointsIf you account for >=2, what happens if you only have one person? If there is one person, don't split the check so ideally, you'd have something along the lines of: