Handling errors

Lesson 11 of 29 in Coddy's Calculator project using Python course.

Currently eval not considering invalid input, the possible errors:

Not list as input.
Wrong size of list, only acceptable sizes are 2 and 3.

Challenge

Easy

Add exception handling for the above errors.

Some examples of the error messages by calls:

eval('not a list') -> Failed to evaluate "not a list"
eval([]) -> Failed to evaluate "[]"
eval(['+', 2, 3, 4]) -> Failed to evaluate "['+', 2, 3, 4]"
eval(5) -> Failed to evaluate "5"

Try it yourself

def calc(op, n1, n2=None):
    if not isinstance(n1, int) and not isinstance(n1, float):
        raise Exception('Invalid number "' + str(n1) + '"')

    if n2 is None:
        if op == '+' or op == 'add':
            return n1
        if op == '-' or op == 'sub':
            return -n1

        raise Exception('Invalid operator "' + op + '"')

    if not isinstance(n2, int) and not isinstance(n2, float):
        raise Exception('Invalid number "' + str(n2) + '"')

    if op == '+' or op == 'add':
        return n1 + n2
    if op == '-' or op == 'sub':
        return n1 - n2
    if op == '*' or op == 'mul':
        return n1 * n2
    if op == '/' or op == 'div':
        if n2 == 0:
            raise Exception("Division by zero")
        return n1 / n2
    if op == '%' or op == 'mod':
        if n2 == 0:
            raise Exception("Division by zero")
        return n1 % n2
    if op == '^' or op == 'pow':
        return n1 ** n2

    raise Exception('Invalid operator "' + op + '"')


def eval(lst):
    if len(lst) == 2:
        op = lst[0]
        n = lst[1]
        if not isinstance(n, list):
            return calc(op, n)

        if isinstance(n, list):
            n = eval(n)

        return calc(op, n)
    elif len(lst) == 3:
        op = lst[0]
        n1 = lst[1]
        n2 = lst[2]
        if not isinstance(n1, list) and not isinstance(n2, list):
            return calc(op, n1, n2)
        
        if isinstance(n1, list):
            n1 = eval(n1)
        if isinstance(n2, list):
            n2 = eval(n2)

        return calc(op, n1, n2)