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Python

Dmitriy Ignatiev
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Dmitriy Ignatiev
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Posted by Dmitriy Ignatiev
Dmitriy Ignatiev
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combiner

Why It is woks in local shell but not in treehouse?

instances.py 
def combiner(something):
    x = 0
    y = ''
    for item in something:
        if isinstance(item, int):
            x += item
        if isinstance(item, str):
            y += item

    return y + str(x)

3 Answers

nicole lumpkin
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nicole lumpkin
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nicole lumpkin
nicole lumpkin
Courses Plus Student 5,328 Points

Yikes Ankoor Bhagat I actually found two errors that are causing your code to fail. First, you are missing the '.' in the join method. Second, the variable i is not defined and will throw a NameError. If you make these changes your code will pass! 

strings = ''.join([s for s in series if isinstance(s, str)])

Nothing is wrong with the TreeHouse grader :) And also, Treehouse is pretty cool. After all, before subscribing to Treehouse I knew nothing about programming, my background is in Kinesiology and I was a personal trainer for 6 years. Based on the training I've received from Treehouse I was able to spot your errors at a glance! So maybe you should hold off before you cancel that subscription...

nicole lumpkin
nicole lumpkin
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nicole lumpkin
nicole lumpkin
Courses Plus Student 5,328 Points

Ps. Nice use of the union set operator and list comprehensions :)

Ankoor Bhagat
Ankoor Bhagat
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Ankoor Bhagat
Ankoor Bhagat
1,097 Points

Hi Nicole, I usually work on Jupyter notebook, I pasted the wrong code here. In Jupyter notebook I had fixed . and i mistakes. I passed the code by making one modification: Using (isinstance, (int, float)) instead of (isinstance(n, int)|isinstance(n, float). Treehouse material is good however their challenge platform does not provide error trace so it is hard to trace where the error is coming from. I joined Treehouse to just learn OOP Python. Thank you.

nicole lumpkin
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nicole lumpkin
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nicole lumpkin
nicole lumpkin
Courses Plus Student 5,328 Points

Hi Tatiana, You are so close! Take a look at Kenneth's sample input:

["apple", 5.2, "dog", 8]

Do you notice a type in the list that's unaccounted for in your code!? :)

Ankoor Bhagat
Ankoor Bhagat
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Ankoor Bhagat
Ankoor Bhagat
1,097 Points

I am getting correct output but failing in code challenge. Treehouse is lame, regretting subscription. Will cancel subscription before my card is charged again.

def combiner(series):
    strings = ''join([s for s in series if isinstance(i, str)])
    numbers = str(sum([n for n in series if (isinstance(n, int)|isinstance(n, float))]))
    return strings + numbers

>>> combiner(['apple', 5.2, 'dog', 8])
>>> 'appledog13.2'