Help with try, raise, except

[Trevoke]

I'm following this book :

http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/chap11.html

And I'm up to chapter 11 (my bank account is fine, thanks). Could you look over this code and tell me where I'm going wrong?
It gives me the except: print all the time, and it doesn't even get as far as "Check 1 : x = "..

def inputnumber():
    x = input('Pick a number: ')
    if x == 17:
        raise 'BadNumberError', '17 is a bad number'
    print "Check 1 : x = ",x
    return x

def gimme():
    try:
        a = inputnumber()
    except:
        print "God doesn't like you today"

gimme()

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[EBGreen]

Works fine for me.

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[Trevoke]

Oh.. Guess it's a bug with pydev then. Thanks

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