Python try if else loop

Question

I am trying this try if else and except loop. But I can't understand why high, low or avg values are 0 even if it is detected correctly.

def img_text(img):
'''loads an image and recognizes text.'''
reader = easyocr.Reader(['en'])
cropped_image = img[0:280, 0:300]
result = reader.readtext(cropped_image)
for (bbox, text, prob) in result:
    if prob >= 0.5:
        print(f'Detected text: {text} (Probability: {prob:.2f})')
        s = [letter for letter in text.split()]
        print(s)
        try:
            if s[0] == 'H' and s[1] != None:
                high = float(s[1])
            else:
                high = 0
        except:
            print("value for high temp is not detected.")
        try:   
            if s[0] == 'L' and s[1] != None:
                low =float(s[1])
            else:
                 low = 0
        except:
            print("value for low temp is not detected.")
        try:
            if s[0] == 'A' and s[1] != None:
                avg = float(s[1])
             else:
                avg = 0
        except:
            print("value for average temp is not detected.")
        print(high, avg, low)
return high, avg, low

Here is the output of the function.

    <class 'str'>
Detected text: C 5.1 (Probability: 0.86)
['C', '5.1']
0 0 0
<class 'str'>
Detected text: H 22.0 (Probability: 0.62)
['H', '22.0']
22.0 0 0
<class 'str'>
Detected text: L -20.7 (Probability: 0.98)
['L', '-20.7']
0 0 -20.7
<class 'str'>
Detected text: A 5.2 (Probability: 1.00)
['A', '5.2']
0 5.2 0
<class 'str'>
Detected text: P 6.6 (Probability: 1.00)
['P', '6.6']
0 0 0

Here is the output showing the values of high, low and avg.

Answer 1

The problem is that you're resetting each value any time it's not a match -- you set avg = 3.0 when you see A 3.0 , for example, but then when you see P 4.8 you set it back to 0 .

To fix this, you should zero the values at the beginning, and only update them when you have a positive match:

def img_text(img):
    '''loads an image and recognizes text.'''
    reader = easyocr.Reader(['en'])
    cropped_image = img[0:280, 0:300]
    result = reader.readtext(cropped_image)
    high, avg, low = 0, 0, 0
    for _, text, prob in result:
        if prob < 0.5:
            continue
        print(f'Detected text: {text} (Probability: {prob:.2f})')
        try:
            label, t = text.split()
            temp = float(t)
        except ValueError:
            continue  # wrong format
        if label == 'H':
            high = temp
        elif label == 'A':
            avg = temp
        elif label == 'L':
            low = temp
    return high, avg, low