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Python Python Basics (2015) Number Game App String length

Raghunath Ramaiah
Raghunath Ramaiah
496 Points

strlen.py

Please may i know what's wrong in the code. Thanks in Advance.

strlen.py
def just_right(s):

    if len(s) > 5:
         str1 = print("Your string is too long")
    elif len(s) < 5:
         print("Your string is too short")    
    else:
         print("You have entered correct length of string")

1 Answer

Robert Ionut Muraru
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Robert Ionut Muraru
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 22,194 Points

Hello,

The challenge asks for the function to return those messages and not to print them. Under the "if" statement you are assigning the 'print("Your string is too long")' to the variable str1.

In order for this to pass you must correct the code to return instead of printing and be sure to return True if the length is not bigger or smaller than 5.