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Posted by Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Morse code challenge - can't solve it!

Afternoon all,

I've been staring at this for a while now and have browsed other solutions within the Community pages but can't see what I've done wrong here.

I think continuing to stare at the code is unlikely to produce a different result so I could do with some help, please!

Thanks,

Steve.

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

    def ___str___(self):
        output = []
        for c in self.pattern:
            if c == '.':
                output.append('dot')
            elif c == '_':
                output.append('dash')
        return "-".join(output)

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

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Your code is fine. :+1:

You just have the wrong name for your method. You have "___str___" (with 6 underscores), but the name should be "__str__" (with 4 underscores).

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Thanks Steven,

That's very odd, though. In the IDE, there's two underscores each side so there must be some weird copy/paste issue that I created.

Thanks again - that'll give me something more interesting to stare at today! :smile:

Steve.

:+1:

Thomas Beaudry
Thomas Beaudry
29,084 Points
Thomas Beaudry
Thomas Beaudry
29,084 Points

Did it work OK Steve Hunter, I am currently on this also? Thank you :)

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Yep - all worked fine. :+1:

D Elis
D Elis
13,571 Points

Hey Steve.. did you find a solution to this challenge? I tried writing the same code you have above but with double underscores but my code still isn't passing

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

When I checked his code the first time, I copied the above and pasted it directly into the challenge. And then after only changing the name, it passed.