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Python

Nadine Abella
Nadine Abella
1,032 Points
Posted by Nadine Abella
Nadine Abella
1,032 Points

hide_macro help

my code works on idle but kinda confused how to translate it into a macro

this is basically my function

def hide_email(email):
    return email[0] + "*" * len(email[1:email.index("@")]) + email[email.index("@"):]
templates/macro.html 
{% macro hide_email(email) %}   
    {{email[0] + "*" * len(email[1:email.index("@")]) + email[email.index("@"):]}}
{%endmacro%}

1 Answer

Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

Hi Nadine Abella, you're quite close.

First up, it's the user that is being passed to the template, not the email, so if you change all instances of email to user.email, that will make sure it's the email attribute being manipulated and printed.

Second, I don't think the string multiplication works here, so you'll instead need to refactor the code to use the Flask/Jinja for loop.

Lastly, instead of concatenating the strings with +, separate them into different blocks (you'll need to do this with the for loop anyways).

Good luck! This is definitely one of the trickier challenges, and there are a ton of questions about it in the forums!