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Python

Posted by Mathew Yangang
Mathew Yangang
4,433 Points

isinstance

I think I am missing something here, but not sure exactly what is the error

instances.py 
def combiner(lst):
    x = ""
    j=0
    for i in range(len(lst)):
        if i  isinstance(i,str) and isinstance(j,(float,int):
            x.append(i)
            j+=j
       return x + int(j)

1 Answer

kyle kitlinski
kyle kitlinski
5,619 Points
kyle kitlinski
kyle kitlinski
5,619 Points

Looks like you just need to remove the first i after the if statement like this. Also i believe i is going to be a number in range every time so you'll want to replace the i in the loop as lst[i]

if isinstance(lst[i],str) and isinstance(j,(float,int):
    x.append(lst[i])
Mathew Yangang
Mathew Yangang
4,433 Points

Thank you Kyle