Python code seems to be ignoring ValueError

Question

I want to handle possible ValueErrors resulting from invalid user input but I still get the red errors in the console instead of the program printing 'Invalid entry' as I intended. I'm not sure what's going wrong.

input_number = input("How many numbers would you like the program to calculate the average of?\n>> ")
try:
    input_number = int(input_number)
except ValueError:
    print("Invalid entry")

for i in range(input_number):
    input("Please enter a whole number (%i/%i numbers entered):\n>> " % (i + 1, input_number))

It seems to ignore my try except statement as the error appears on the line of the for statement, saying "TypeError: 'str' object cannot be interpreted as an integer". It still doesn't work even if I amend the except to be "except ValueError or TypeError".

Answer 1

The clause should be

except (ValueError, TypeError):
    ...