I've checked the guidelines for PEP8 and I cant seem to find anymore problems could you please help me. Thank you.

Hey Danielle Murray, there is a Python module pycodestyle available to check this. This module was formerly know as "pep8".

Output is file:line:char: Error or Warning number message

(venv)$ pip install pycodestyle

(venv)$ pycodestyle dmurray_pep8.py 
dmurray_pep8.py:19:5: E303 too many blank lines (2)
dmurray_pep8.py:23:5: E211 whitespace before '('
dmurray_pep8.py:23:13: E201 whitespace after '['
dmurray_pep8.py:23:15: E202 whitespace before ']'

Edit: There's also the Python module black that will auto-correct these errors:

(venv)$ cp dmurray_pep8.py dmurray_pep8_org.py
(venv)$ black dmurray_pep8.py 
reformatted dmurray_pep8.py
All done! ✨ 🍰 ✨
1 file reformatted.
(venv)$ diff dmurray_pep8.py dmurray_pep8_org.py 
17a18
> 
22c23
< Tree(sizes[0], {"name": "Tulip Tree"})
---
> Tree (sizes[ 0 ], {"name": "Tulip Tree"})

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the challenge checker incorrectly requires single quotation marks (') instead of double quotations marks ("). This is not a standard practice and many standard formatting programs (such as black) use double quotation marks. This has been brought to the attention of the dev team to no avail.

Dev Team: change the passing conditions to include double quotations.

Post back if you need more help. Good luck!!

Hi Chris Freeman thank you so much for your help but after fixing all my errors that you mentioned above i'm still getting an error mentioning that functions and classes need 2 spaces. import datetime

def my_func(): return "It ran!"

sizes =["small", "medium", "large"]

class Tree: def init(self, size, characteristics): self.size = size self.charac = characteristics self.roots = True self.leaves = 0

def grow_leaves(self): self.leaves += 1

Tree(sizes[0], {"name": "Tulip Tree"})

Chris Freeman

import datetime

def my_func(): return 'It ran!'

sizes =['small', 'medium', 'large']

class Tree: def init(self, size, characteristics): self.size = size self.charac = characteristics self.roots = True self.leaves = 0

def grow_leaves(self): self.leaves += 1

Tree(sizes[0], {'name': 'Tulip Tree'})

I've changed all of the quotation marks to single quotation marks but it still does not pass and gives the error message that the quotation marks need to be consistent.

There is another issue with this challenge. I was receiving blank line errors, i.e. "there should be a blank line after a method" or "There should be 2 blanks lines after a function or class"

The online editor was inserting spaces when hitting return after function or method definitions. It was considering these lines not empty. I had to manually delete the spaces without removing the blank line before the tests passed. Frustrating

import datetime


def my_func():
    return 'It ran!'


sizes = ['small', 'medium', 'large']


class Tree:

    def __init__(self, size, characteristics):
        self.size = size
        self.charac = characteristics
        self.roots = True
        self.leaves = 0

    def grow_leaves(self):
        self.leaves += 1


Tree(sizes[0], {'name': 'Tulip Tree'})