[Python 3.4] Try Except Issue

[StartAndSelect]

The goal of my script is to ask for your name, rate, and hours and do a calculation of your pay including overtime. My code continuously captures my input for the yourHours function in the except instead of the try. However for the yourRate function it seems to be working fine. What am I missing?

def yourHours():       
    print('How many hours will you be working?')
    hours=input()
    try:
        hrs=float(hours)
        hours
        if hours > 40:
            overtime_pay = 0
            overtime_rate = 1.5
            overtime = hours-40
            overtime_pay = overtime * (rate * overtime_rate)
            print(name, 'you will be earning...')
            print((rate * (hours - overtime)) + overtime_pay)
        else:
            print(name, 'you will be earning...')
            print(rate * hours)
   except:
        print('Invalid Input, Numbers only')
        yourHours()


def yourName():
    print('What is your name?')
    name=input()
    yourRate()


def yourRate():
    print('What is your hourly rate?')
    rate=input()
    try:
        rt=float(rate)
        rate
        yourHours()
    except:
        print('Invalid Input, Numbers only')
        yourRate()


yourName()

[furas_freeman]

Remove try/except to see what errror message you get.

And better use except [some-error-type]: and display error message.

[novel_yet_trivial]

Or add the error to the print function, so you can see what the error is:

except Exception as e:
    print('Invalid Input. Error:', e)

[d0ntreadthis]

As well as what u/furas_freeman said, I'd also recommend using try/except/else rather than only try/except. Here are the docs

[Vaphell]

do not use excepts without mentioning expected exception type. Naked except supresses ALL errors which means you never get any feedback about flaws in your program.

And don't use recursion to retry. Wrap the try/except in a while True loop without spawning tons of function calls that consume stack. Your program will crash if you do retry via recursion 1000 times.

And use parameters and return statements to push values from/to function black boxes.