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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Dungeon Game Line endings

Posted by Karen Shumate
Karen Shumate
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Print each item on the same line unless the item is a double pipe (||). In that case, instead of printing the item, prin

How do I get it to print out?

Thanks,

mapping.py 
TILES = ('-', ' ', '-', ' ', '-', '||',
         '_', '|', '_', '|', '_', '|', '||',
         '&', ' ', '_', ' ', '||',
         ' ', ' ', ' ', '^', ' ', '||'
)
for tile in TILES:
       if tile != "||":
            output = tile
            else:
                output = "\n"
            print( end="")

1 Answer

Timothy Long
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Timothy Long
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 6,833 Points
Timothy Long
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Timothy Long
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 6,833 Points

Hi Karen,

It seems you possibly misunderstood what the question is asking for.

You need to print out each item in the TILES list unless it is '||'. If that is the case you print a new line.

This code works:

for tile in TILES:
    if tile == '||':
        print('\n')
    else:
        print(tile, end='')

To explain my code I use a for loop to loop through each list item. I check to see if each index is equal to '||' and if it is just print('\n') (print only a newline character).

Then in my else block I print tile and add one argument. You can see in the Python documentation here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#print

That the end argument in python by default is a newline character. Changing this to end='' gets rid of the newline and prints everything on the same line. Thus printing everything out on the same line. Unless of course the current index is == to the '||'.

I hope this was helpful!