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Python

Jason Smith
Jason Smith
8,668 Points
Posted by Jason Smith
Jason Smith
8,668 Points

Getting bummer

Not sure where i went wrong, any ideas?

morse.py 
class Letter:
    def __init__(self, pattern=None):
        self.pattern = pattern
    def __str__(self, pattern=None):
        self.pattern = pattern
        code = []
        translate = ""
        for morse in pattern:
            if morse == ".":
                code.append("dot")
            elif morse == "_":
                code.append("dash")
        for symbol in code:
            translate.join("-")
        return translate

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

1 Answer

Cheo R
Cheo R
37,150 Points
Cheo R
Cheo R
37,150 Points

You're close. Because you're printing a string representation of the pattern, you don't need to pass pattern in the string method and subsequently you can remove self.pattern because it's accessible from __init__.

In the for loop, you can access the pattern, using self.pattern.

You can get rid of your last for loop (an translate variable above) because:

  1. your code variable is a list of strings (dot, dashes, ect)
  2. the join method works on lists.

So all you would have to do is return the result of calling join (and what to join with) on your variable *code).

You're on the right track.