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

Posted by Ian Maina
Ian Maina
4,571 Points

what is wrong with my code?

Could you help me out here, please?

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

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi Ian,

You missed a colon (edited!) at your if statement line. You also don't want to output the || if one is reached, so set tile to '' in that scenario.

My code looked like: 

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

Yours can be easily modified to do the same thing:

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

I hope that helps,

Steve.

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Oh, and don't set line_end to be a space, either, in your else bit.