Python for Everybody -- why is line 4 included in the try block?

[hbar1st]

i asked the exact same thing for this and I came up with my own explanation. Let me look it up for you on here…

edit:
here it is

Why add "try/except" to 2 lines in this question?

On further thought I think I understand the issue with this question. The question declared a variable with a constant value “5 degrees” but what it probably meant to say is “Imagine that a user provided this value, and we didn’t know what they had given, that is, a number or possibly some alphanumeric value. In this case, which lines could cause a problem/exception?” If it had been worded that way instead of giving us a hardcoded value to transform, then the answer “3/4” now makes sense. I noti…