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Python

Posted by leoandrebenezit
leoandrebenezit
4,293 Points

What is wrong with my code? Why is it not getting accepted?

It seems to work in the workspace, how come not here?

instances.py 
def combiner(alist):
    words = []
    numbers = 0

    for x in alist:
        if isinstance(x, str):
            words.append(x)
        elif isinstance(x, (float, int):
            numbers += x


    print("".join(words) + str(numbers))

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

There are two issues:

  1. You are missing a closing parenthesis in your elif statement.

  2. The function is supposed to return the combined string, not print it.

Like this:

def combiner(alist):
    words = []
    numbers = 0

    for x in alist:
        if isinstance(x, str):
            words.append(x)
        elif isinstance(x, (float, int)): # Added missing )
            numbers += x


    return "".join(words) + str(numbers) # Changed print to return