I just can't wrap my head around these last 3 challenges

Question

I only kinda understand the decorator, but but the examples given were not as clear as others in the tract. I believe I would need to make an iterative loop to convert the string but I'm drawing a blank on how.

morse.py

class Letter:
    def __init__(self, pattern=None):
        self.pattern = pattern

    def __iter__(self):
        yield from self.pattern

    def __str__(self):
        output = []
        for blip in self:
            if blip == '.':
                output.append('dot')
            else:
                output.append('dash')
        return '-'.join(output)


class S(Letter):
    def __init__(self):
         pattern = ['.', '.', '.']
         super().__init__(pattern)

Answer 1 · 2019-04-29T17:59:07Z

April 29, 2019 5:59pm

Create a class method in Letter named from_string that takes a string like "dash-dot" and creates an instance with the correct pattern (['_', '.']).

Let's break down the problem from the description.

Create a class method... -- need to creating a method decorated with @classmethod
... in Letter named from_string... -- method is called from_string and goes in the class Letter
... that takes a string like "dash-dot"... -- the method has one parameter, you can expect it to be a string
...and creates an instance... -- classmethods do not have an instance to operate on, so you can create one (see below)
...with the correct pattern (['_', '.']). -- You're correct, in that a loop will be needed to parse the string (using split on a hyphen seems appropriate) and convert each "dash" to an '_' underscore and each "dot" to a '.' period. Use this list of parsed characters called, say 'pattern, you can create a new instance usinginst = cls(pattern)`
remember to return the new instance.

Post back if you need more help. Good luck!

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I just can't wrap my head around these last 3 challenges

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