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Python

Posted by alekseibingham
alekseibingham
4,491 Points

I completed the challenge but when viewing the "preview" it makes no sence

"Write a function named printer. The function should take a single argument, count, and should print "Hi " as many times as the count argument. Remember, you can multiply a string by an integer."

My Answer:

def printer(count): print("Hi " * count)

printer(12)

While it is printing "Hi " times the count, if i replace count with 12 as i did, and run the program, it spits out only 5 "HI "s. Why is this? No matter what number I put in there it always prints 5 "Hi "s!

1 Answer

Jaxon Gonzales
Jaxon Gonzales
3,562 Points

Hi Aleksei!

On most code challenges you should not have to call the function. It should just be the code:

def printer(count):
    print("Hi"*count)

Also, when you are looking at the preview mode (I'm not 100% sure about this but I think this might be how it works) the website runs your function with a certain argument to see what the output is.

Basically, I would just try getting rid of the line that calls the function.

Hope this helps!

alekseibingham
alekseibingham
4,491 Points

sounds great, thanks!