Division That Never Crashes

Easy ⏱ 8 min 88% acceptance ★★★★☆ 4.4

Write safe_divide(a, b) returning a / b, but returning None when b is zero — by catching <code>ZeroDivisionError</code>, not by pre-checking b == 0 (the point is practicing EAFP style).

Examples

Example 1

Input

safe_divide(10, 4)

Output

2.5

Explanation

Normal division.

Example 2

Input

safe_divide(5, 0)

Output

None

Explanation

The exception is caught and None returned.

Constraints

Must use try/except.
Catch only ZeroDivisionError.

Topics

Exception Handlingtry/except

Companies

TCSCognizantAccenture

Hints

Hint 1

Wrap just the division in try.

Hint 2

The except block returns None.

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