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Python Python Basics (2015) Number Game App String length

Posted by Gerald Wells
Gerald Wells
12,763 Points

Create a new function names just_right that takes a single argument, a string. PYTHON help please

this is my code can someone tell me what I am doing wrong, I have run it in my terminal and everything is working as it should but for some reason I can not pass this challenge.

Gerald Wells
Gerald Wells
12,763 Points 
def just_right(string):
    if len(string) < 5:
        print("Your string is too short")
    elif len(string) > 5:
        print("Your string is too long")
    else:
        return True

[MOD: added ```python markdown formatting -cf]

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,426 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,426 Points

Your code is very close. You need to use return instead of print for the strings.

Gerald Wells
Gerald Wells
12,763 Points

Thank you Chris!

Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,426 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,426 Points

print is used to display text on a console or STDOUT. This output text is not accessible by other code.

return is a built-in command that returns an object pointer to the calling code.

The challenge checker calls the function and inspects the returned object for correctness.

If a function does not have an explicit return statement then an implicit default is used:

    return None

So without the return the checker sees None