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Hi there! the issue in here comes from the case in which the user passes something other than a number!

So lets say for example that the user passes in the string 9, this can be converted to a numeric value by using a converter which is the case of the int(function) but in the event of the user passing a string the program would crash. In order to avoid this we use the try-except block and for this we need to know the type of exception that might be raised, if you try your function as it stands in the Python interpreter then you would see that the error referenced is ValueError, so we can simply wrap this up in a nice try block like this

def squared(number)
    try:
        number = int(number)
        return number * number
    except ValueError:
        return len(number * number

Because of this, the program will not crash and if you pass a string of characters as a parameter it will know what to do with the raised exception.

Now, notice your assignments as well int(apple) = 5 makes no sense, if you want to pass 5 to the function, that is where the argument call goes as demonstrated in the examples, thus using squared(5) will put the value of number to 5, also, because you are not saving the reference to int(number) anywhere then the value would be pretty much useless. Reread the concepts regarding value assignment if you are still sketchy on this part. Basically, if you want to transform valriable number = "9" to a number value AND use it, you would do

# we have a number variable that has a string value that represents a number

number = "9"

# we want to change that to a number and use it

number =  int(number)