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Tiana Manzano
Courses Plus Student 2,248 Pointsmorse.py
I'm not sure why I am getting the error answer if my output succesfully produces 'dot-dot-dot'. Did I do something incorrectly?
class Letter:
def __init__(self, pattern=None):
self.pattern = pattern
def __str__(self):
morse = " "
for item in self.pattern:
if item == '.':
morse += "dot"
elif item == "_":
morse += "dash"
morse += "-"
morsec = morse[:-1]
return morsec
class S(Letter):
def __init__(self):
pattern = ['.', '.', '.']
super().__init__(pattern)
3 Answers
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 PointsA space is considered a character in the string so you weren't producing 'dot-dot-dot'. You were producing ' dot-dot-dot' (spacedot-dot-dot). If you initialize an empty string there is no space.
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 PointsYou have a leading space because you initialized morse = " ". Try morse = "".
Tiana Manzano
Courses Plus Student 2,248 Pointshey!! that totally worked! But would it be possible for you to explain why please?
Joanita Nyashanu
3,099 PointsWhen you put white space inside your quotes python considers it a character eg. " ". However when there is no space it is considered an empty string eg. "". So the difference is the white space and no space inside quotes of your initialized string variable 'morse'