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Kars Jansens
5,348 PointsI do not understand why this doesn't work. {python}
Question: OK, here's a...weird...set of tiles. I need you to loop through TILES and print out each item. Print each item on the same line unless the item is a double pipe (||). In that case, instead of printing the item, print a new line (\n). Use the end argument to print() to control whether things print on a new line or not.
I do not understand why this doesn't work.
TILES = ('-', ' ', '-', ' ', '-', '||',
'_', '|', '_', '|', '_', '|', '||',
'&', ' ', '_', ' ', '||',
' ', ' ', ' ', '^', ' ', '||'
)
for tile in TILES:
if tile != '||':
line_end = ""
output = tile
else:
line_end = "\n"
output = tile
print(output,end=line_end)
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there, Kars Jansens ! I received your request for assistance. You're doing terrific! But there is a slight problem. You are changing the line ending, but you're not hopping over the ||. Those are still printing out. The instructions say:
In that case, instead of printing the item, print a new line (\n).
This is fairly easily fixed, though. Inside your else statement, instead of setting output equal to the tile:
output = tile
Try setting it to an empty string:
output = ''
Remember, we only want to print the tile if it's not a ||
Hope this helps!
Kars Jansens
5,348 PointsThank you, I overlooked that.