June 2018 Update

Task/Run-length-encoding/Python/run-length-encoding-1.py

@@ -13,10 +13,13 @@ def encode(input_string):
         else:
             count += 1
     else:
-        entry = (character,count)
-        lst.append(entry)
-    return lst
-
+        try:
+            entry = (character,count)
+            lst.append(entry)
+            return (lst, 0)
+        except Exception as e:
+            print("Exception encountered {e}".format(e=e))
+            return (e, 1)
 
 def decode(lst):
     q = ""
@@ -25,5 +28,7 @@ def decode(lst):
     return q
 
 #Method call
-encode("aaaaahhhhhhmmmmmmmuiiiiiiiaaaaaa")
-decode([('a', 5), ('h', 6), ('m', 7), ('u', 1), ('i', 7), ('a', 6)])
+value = encode("aaaaahhhhhhmmmmmmmuiiiiiiiaaaaaa")
+if value[1] == 0:
+    print("Encoded value is {}".format(value[0]))
+    decode(value[0])