🔒 I need help with runtime error. I am a python beginner that is learning how functions work.

[lament cairn]

Please help me if you can. Thank you.

    """Returns the artist and album name."""
    
    artist_and_album = {'artist': artist_name,
                        'album title': album_title,
                        'number of songs': num_of_songs}
    
    if num_of_songs:
        artist_and_album['number of songs'] = num_of_songs

    return (artist_and_album)

while True:
    print("Please type an artist name, album title, "
          "as well as number of songs.")
    print("Type 'quit' to stop. ")
    
    art_name = input("Artist: ")
    if art_name == 'quit':
        break    

    al_name = input("Album Title: ")
    if al_name == 'quit':
        break

    num_name = input("Number of Songs: ")
    if num_name == 'quit':
        break

info = make_info(art_name, al_name, num_name)
print(f"\nArtist: {info[art_name]}"
      f"\n Album: {info[al_name]}"
      f"\n Number of Songs: {info[num_name]}")

[queen marsh]

@lament cairn

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Hey @lament cairn!

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[radiant osprey]

!traceback What's the error?

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[manic coral]

First, it's possible to call a function with empty arguments in your code. Second, variable num_name is a string but integer expected. Third, you're using dictionaries wrong

when you type quit to exit the loop, it's used as a key to get dict value which doesn't exist

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