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Python

Dale Hietala
Dale Hietala
2,522 Points
Posted by Dale Hietala
Dale Hietala
2,522 Points

morse.py fails, but results match

The example for this challenge indicates the output should be "dot-dot-dot". The error received when checking the result is: "Bummer! Didn't get the right string output. Got: dot-dot-dot for 'S()'." That looks pretty close to the expected output. What am I missing?

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

    def __str__(self):
        ctr = 0
        output = ''
        for char in self.pattern:
            ctr += 1
            if char == '.':
                output += 'dot'
            elif char == '_':
                output += 'dash'
            if ctr < 3:
                output += '-'
        return output


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

1 Answer

Jeff Vig
Jeff Vig
16,345 Points
Jeff Vig
Jeff Vig
16,345 Points

You are assuming that the pattern will always be 3 dots/dashes long, but it could be 2 or 4. You want to just build your string and strip off the last '-'.