easy Exception Handling

Robust Age Input Loop

The Brief

MediCare's patient intake kiosk crashes when staff accidentally type letters into the age field. The bug has caused two full-reboot incidents this month. Build a robust input loop that refuses to give up until it receives a valid integer in a sensible range.

Acceptance Criteria

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1 Loop forever prompting the user for their age

3 Reject ages outside the range 0–150 with a helpful message

4 Once valid, print Age confirmed: <age> and exit the loop

2 Convert input to an integer — catch ValueError and ask again with a helpful message

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solution.py

Python 3

# MediCare kiosk — robust age input
# Keep asking until the user gives a valid integer in range.

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