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Python

Posted by Dong Ik Yang
Dong Ik Yang
4,681 Points

don't know what is wrong my answer of Python Basic Challenge Question

Help me out please.

I've got "Try again!" message but I don't know what is WRONG my answer.

Here's the Question

Create a new function named just_right that takes a single argument, a string. If the length of the string is less than five characters, return "Your string is too short". If the string is longer than five characters, return "Your string is too long". Otherwise, just return True.

Here's my answer

def just_right(str1): if len(str1) < 5: print("Your string is too short") elif len(str1) > 5: print("Your string is too long") else: return True

2 Answers

Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
21,074 Points

You are almost right but you forgot to put a colon after you if statement and you have to use a less than operator to check is less than 5 characters, and you have to return the string instead of printing it.

def just_right(str1):
    if len(str1) < 5: 
        return "Your string is too short"
    elif len(str1) > 5:
        return "Your string is too long"
    else: 
        return True

I hope that helps a little bit

Scott Halford
Scott Halford
8,964 Points

Hi Carlos, Can you and/or anyone please tell me why I can't use 'print' instead of 'return?' For example:

print("Your string is too short") print("Your string is too long")

instead of:

return "Your string is too short" return "Your string is too long"

Dong Ik Yang
Dong Ik Yang
4,681 Points
Dong Ik Yang
Dong Ik Yang
4,681 Points

If yon use print() then it just display the result on your screen. But if you return the result then you can print out side of the function or assaign to other variable/s

And the question asks "return" not print or display on your screen.

That's why you and I got thr "try again" message. :)

Scott Halford
Scott Halford
8,964 Points

Ok, thanks Dong.