Understanding Error Handling - What Is the Raise Statement and How Does It Work?

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Tell us what’s happening:

for the code example on “raise exceptions conditionally using assert statements”, shouldn’t the code be:
def calculate_square_root(number):
assert number <= 0, ‘Cannot…’
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Understanding Error Handling - What Is the Raise Statement and How Does It Work?

GitHub Link: freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/lecture-understanding-error-handling/688c9c4fe5fef91262f9bdf8.md at main · freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp · GitHub

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Welcome to the forum @ash19,

The assert statement tests to see if the condition is true. If it’s not, the error message is displayed. I agree that this was not clear from the lecture. Please consider opening a GitHub issue for this:

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