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Python Python Basics (2015) Number Game App String length

Posted by Molly Stieber
Molly Stieber
551 Points

I don't understand why my code doesn't work

I'm getting either the error that says that it didn't give the right answer or it takes 0 positional arguments but one was given and I don't know how to fix it.

strlen.py 
def just_right(word):
    word=[]
    if len(word) > 5:
        return("Your string is too long")
    elif len(word) < 5:
        return("Your string is too short")
    else:
        True

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hi Molly,

You've pretty much got it... just two small things:

  1. The method takes a string as a argument, but for some reason you are taking that string being passed in and re-assigning it an empty dictionary? I'm not sure where you got that from, so line 2 just needs to be deleted.
  2. In your else clause, you are missing the return keyword needed to return True.

Once those two things are taken care off, the rest of the code looks great and will pass! :thumbsup:

Keep Coding! :) :dizzy: