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Python

Yosef Berlin
Yosef Berlin
1,813 Points
Posted by Yosef Berlin
Yosef Berlin
1,813 Points

I got the right output but, it's giving me an error

Hi, I ran this code in workspaces and I got the correct result. But I get a bummer message when I try the challenge. Please help

instances.py 
def combiner(*args):
    seperator = ""
    num_list = []
    word_list = []
    for instance in args:
        if isinstance(instance, str):
            word_list.append(instance)
        elif isinstance(instance, (int,float)):
            num_list.append(instance)
    final_words = seperator.join(word_list)
    total_nums = sum(num_list)
    return final_words + str(total_nums)

1 Answer

Pedro Cabral
Pedro Cabral
33,586 Points
Pedro Cabral
Pedro Cabral
33,586 Points

The only thing you need to do is to remove the splat operator (asterisk).

The code challenge will give as input a list: ["apple", 5.2, "dog", 8]

At the moment, your code would only pass if the input were the arguments, comma-separated: "apple", 5.2, "dog", 8 which you then pack, effectively achieving the same result. Howeve the code challenge is not feeding you the args separately, and that's the reason why it fails.