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Python

Posted by Tess Lewis
Tess Lewis
11,434 Points

It's saying it didn't get the right output, but it is totally the right output?

It's saying the output is dot-dot-dot, which is the output it expects, but it is saying this is incorrect. I am dyslexic, so maybe I'm reading it wrong, but can anyone tell me what the go is? Thanks!

morse.py 
class Letter:
    def __init__(self, pattern=None):
        self.pattern = pattern

    def __str__(self):
        string = ""
        for thing in self.pattern:
            if len(string) >= 1:
                string += '-'

            if thing == '.':
                string += 'dot'
            if thing == '-':
                string += 'dash'
        return string


class S(Letter):
    def __init__(self):
        pattern = ['.', '.', '.']
        super().__init__(pattern)

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there, Thomas Vaughan-Reid ! I had to look at this for a few minutes, too so don't feel bad. And the Bummer here is not that informative because it matches what it's supposed to match for that data. But they're also clearly testing the underscore somehow and this is where it's failing.

Here you're testing for a hyphen as a dash:

if thing == '-':

But you're meant to check for an underscore as a dash:

if thing == '_':

Once I fix that if statement, it works like a charm! Good job! :sparkles:

Tess Lewis
Tess Lewis
11,434 Points

Thanks so much!