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Python Python Basics (2015) Number Game App String length

Posted by Aryan Monga
Aryan Monga
4,061 Points

A quiz Question

The question is " Create a new function named just_right that takes a single argument, a string. If the length of the string is less than five characters, return "Your string is too short". If the string is longer than five characters, return "Your string is too long". Otherwise, just return True."

Please solve this problem! I don't know what is wrong with it ;)

strlen.py 
def just_right(a):
    if len(a) < 5: 
        return "Your string is too short"
    else:
        return True
raj anand
raj anand
3,033 Points

def just_right(a): if len(a) < 5: return "Your string is too short" elif len(a) > 5: return "Your string is too long" else: return True

1 Answer

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

You seem to have skipped the second part of the instructions:

If the string is longer than five characters, return "Your string is too long".

You are only checking if the string is too short, you need and elif statement that checks if it is too long as well.