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Python

George Clement
George Clement
2,816 Points
Posted by George Clement
George Clement
2,816 Points

Magic method

I am not sure what to do with this one... I know the replaces I am using are ugly but not sure why they are failing

morse.py 
class Letter:
    def __init__(self, pattern=None):
        self.pattern = pattern

    def __string__(self):

    def __str__(self):
        string_copy1 = self.pattern
        string_copy2 = string_copy1.replace(".", "dot")
        string_copy3 = string_copy2.replace("_", "dash")
        string_copy4 = string_copy3.replace(" ", "-")

        return string_copy4


class S(Letter):
    def __init__(self):
        pattern = ['.', '.', '.']
        super().__init__(pattern)

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

Though your solution is not as efficient as a single pass for loop, it would work with the following corrections:

  • self.pattern is a list, so it should be converted to a string before using executing the replacements:
string_copy1 = " ".join(self.pattern)
  • The extraneous method __string__ is incomplete. Remove or add a pass statement

You can further simplify your solution by

  • using "-".join() so the space-to-hyphen is already done.
  • no need to create a new string "copy", you may reassign the result to string which overwrites the previous value

Post back if you need more help. Good luck!