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Python

J.R. Wright
J.R. Wright
18,003 Points
Posted by J.R. Wright
J.R. Wright
18,003 Points

Error 'Didn't get the right string output. Got: dot-dot-dot for `S()`'...isn't that the correct result?

I don't understand why my code is not valid...in the explanation it says for the 'S' class the "str" output should be "dot-dot-dot" and that's the result I get, but apparently it's not correct?

morse.py 
class Letter:
    def __init__(self, pattern=None):
        self.pattern = pattern

    def __str__(self):
        rep = ''

        for x, char in enumerate(self.pattern):
            if x > 0:
                rep += '-'
            if char == '.':
                rep += 'dot'
            elif char == '-':
                rep += 'dash'
        return rep


class S(Letter):
    def __init__(self):
        pattern = ['.', '.', '.']
        super().__init__(pattern)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,670 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,670 Points

The error message is a bit misleading, but the challenge performs tests with other patterns besides "S".

The instructions say to return a "dash" for every "_" (underscore), but this code is looking for "-" (hyphen) instead to represent dashes.