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Nichole "Nikki" Carnesi
7,103 PointsI'm out of option...
I have gone through and read every person who struggled with this challenge. And it seems everyone figured it out after someone commented that they were missing an extra line. But flat out, I have zero clue what anyone is talking about. This is my code. I think it should work as is. I am frustrated. Please don't tell me that an extra line is needed, because I won't know what you are talking about. And the "preview" button doesn't do anything. How can I see what I am doing to know if I am on the right track or not? Trying workspace doesn't work either.
for tile in TILES:
if tile == "||":
line_end = "\n"
else:
line_end = ""
print(tile, end=line_end)
2 Answers
james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Pointsdon't you have an IDE? like canopy or spyder? you need to be able to run code like this. there is also pythontutor, a website. anyway, stepping through your code, we see that it looks at what the tile is and prints it, along with an end line character, but we are not supposed to print the double pipes. one way to solve this that i used is to introduce another variable and set it equal to the tile if it's a regular tile, and set it equal to the empty string if it's the double pipe, then in your print, you print this new variable, not the tile variable. so if tile = ||, tile2 = '' and end line = newline. else, tile2 = tile and end line = ''. then print tile2, not tile, along with end line.
james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Pointsyour code prints the double pipes. the challenge says not to: "Print each item on the same line unless the item is a double pipe (||). In that case, instead of printing the item, print a new line (\n). " you just need to tweak it a little so that the pipes don't print.
Nichole "Nikki" Carnesi
7,103 PointsHonestly, I have no idea. I am assuming you mean using print() and I tried adding it right before "else:" with "title, end=line_end" or "\n" or nothing in at all. I even tried removing the "else:" statement altogether. Nothing. I tried swapping "\n" and "". I tried removing "tile" from print(). I'm not sure what else to do. I wish I could actually test this and see what it looks like but I have to guess what it's doing since the preview button doesn't work. It's frustrating doing all of this blindly when I am not 100% sure what I am doing yet. I tried looking at the for loop from the previous video with the "for cell in CELLS:" to see if there is any clue in that and nothing. Sorry, I'm just really overly frustrated with this.
Nichole "Nikki" Carnesi
7,103 PointsNichole "Nikki" Carnesi
7,103 PointsJames, thank you for your patience. Last night I was moments away from tears, I was tired and felt defeated. I took your second comment advice and still couldn't figure it out. I'm thinking that I just don't understand this challenge at all. I am in the process of trying to download an IDE. Meanwhile, I just looked for another persons code and used that to pass this challenge because I couldn't handle it anymore. I need to move forward. Thanks again though.