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Richard Cairns
1,736 PointsHaving trouble with Task 2/2 in the Python Collections course
I have to write code to remove the non-integer items from the list.
My code is failing with the message "It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing".
I haven't changed the code for Task 1 at all - it passed previously. I don't understand why the subsequent code would change the pass / fail for Task 1.
messy_list = ["a", 2, 3, 1, False, [1, 2, 3]]
# Your code goes below here
messy_list.insert(0, messy_list.pop(3))
messy_list.remove("a")
messy_list.remove(False)
messy_list.remove[1,2,3]
1 Answer
Connor Walker
17,985 PointsThe problem was with this line:
messy_list.remove[1,2,3]
You had forgot to put brackets around the array that you are trying to remove from the array so it didn't work. It should look like this
messy_list.remove([1,2,3])
Richard Cairns
1,736 PointsHi Connor,
Thank you so much! I've corrected that now and it worked.
I'm still a bit perplexed as to why the error message said that Task 1 was no longer passing, but I'm just happy to be able to progress. :-)
Richard Cairns
1,736 PointsRichard Cairns
1,736 PointsSorry - just to be clear, the line:
messy_list.insert(0, messy_list.pop(3))Was the solution to Task 1. The three subsequent lines are my solution to Task 2 (this task) which is to remove all of the non-integers.
I submitted the answer iteratively after adding each of these lines, one at a time, to see what the error messages would be:
messy_list.remove("a")Result: failed because I hadn't removed all the non-integer elements (which is what I expected).
messy_list.remove(False)Result: failed because I hadn't removed all the non-integer elements (which is what I expected).
messy_list.remove[1,2,3]Result: failed because Task 1 was no longer passing.