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Python Python Basics (2015) Number Game App String length

Kenneth Drew
Kenneth Drew
4,500 Points
Posted by Kenneth Drew
Kenneth Drew
4,500 Points

Am I doing something wrong?

I keep returning an answer as I should but the site returns my answer as incorrect.

strlen.py 
answer = ""
def just_right(a):
    if a.len < 5:
        answer = "Your string is too short"
    elif a.len > 5:
        answer = "Your string is too long"
    else:
        answer = True
    return answer
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

I believe that they are looking for it to be typed this way:

if len(a) < 5:

4 Answers

Kyler Smith
Kyler Smith
10,110 Points
Kyler Smith
Kyler Smith
10,110 Points

You're close! Your passing the 'len' function wrong. You need to pass the string as a parameter to len Look below!

# To get the length of a string
string = "Some string"
stringLength = len(string)
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

This is what I did:

def just_right(string):
    if len(string) < 5:
        return "Your string is too short"
    elif len(string) > 5:
        return "Your string is too long"
    else:
        return True
Kenneth Drew
Kenneth Drew
4,500 Points
Kenneth Drew
Kenneth Drew
4,500 Points

Thanks yall so much! That helps and you're very quick to answer!

Luigi Santos
Luigi Santos
13,200 Points
Luigi Santos
Luigi Santos
13,200 Points

len(str) instead of str.len!