How to run morse.py (to test it like the challenge does)

Question

I was able to pass the morse.py challenge (by the skin of my teeth) but I am not really confident with Classes and was experimenting with them to solidify my knowledge. Messing around in the shell, I realized that I don't even know how to run the program so that morse turns the pattern, "." "." "." into "dot" "dot" "dot".

Here is the code that I wrote:

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

    def __str__(self):
        pattern = []
        for i in pattern:
            if i == ".":
                pattern.append("dot")
            elif i == "_":
                pattern.append("dash")
        return "-".join(pattern)

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

It seems to work ok in the workspace on treehouse, but I can't figure how to run this on my own computer. Here is a printout of what I have tried (Win10):

>>> from morse import Letter,S
>>> s = S()
>>> print(s)

>>> s = S(Letter)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: __init__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given
>>> s = Letter()
>>> s
<morse.Letter object at 0x000001028BC8C780>
>>> s.pattern
>>> print(s.pattern)
None
>>> print(s.__str__)
<bound method Letter.__str__ of <morse.Letter object at 0x000001028BC8C780>>
>>>

Answer 1 · 2017-08-04T00:55:40Z

August 4, 2017 12:55am

The Letter.__str__ method is using the local variable pattern in the for loop iterable instead of the attribute self.pattern. By using the local variable pattern there is nothing to loop over since it was just initialized to the empty list.

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