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Python

Posted by Joseph Miller
Joseph Miller
4,872 Points

Combos challenge output seems correct but not passing

When I run this in workspace it seems fine, but it fails the challenge. What am I doing wrong?

def combo(keys,value_string):
    tup_list =[]
    for key in keys:
        tup = key, value_string[key-1]
        tup_list.append(tuple(tup))
    return tup_list

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

Your solution seems to bank on the keys array being exactly as in the sample data. This is an incorrect assumption. The data used to grade the challenge is not guaranteed to be the same as the sample data. Your solution needs to be more generic to handle any data, such as, combo(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'], ['Z', 'Y', 'X', 'W']).

Try using a generic index to build each tuple, such as:

for index in range(len(keys)):
    tup = keys[index], value_string[index]

# OR
for index, key in enumerate(keys):
    tup = key, value_string[index]