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Python

Posted by David Cheatham
David Cheatham
10,431 Points

Stuck on Instances

I feel like I must be missing something.

I run the code in a workspace and it spits out the correct result...

can someone look at it and tell me where I'm going wrong?

Thanks so much!

instances.py 
def combiner(*args):
    string = ""
    number = 0
    for arg in args:
        if isinstance(arg, str):
            string += arg
        else:
            number += float(arg)

    if number == 0:
        number = ""
    return string + str(number)

print(combiner("apple", 5.2, "dog", 8 ))

2 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points

The challenge specifies that combiner takes a single argument so you don't need the splat operator. 

def combiner(*args):

should just be

def combiner(args):

Also remove the print statement at the end.

David Cheatham
David Cheatham
10,431 Points
David Cheatham
David Cheatham
10,431 Points

Thanks