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competent- fellow
competent- fellow
5,846 Points
Posted by competent- fellow
competent- fellow
5,846 Points

Blocked at Morse Code (despite right output?)

I am stuck here. I get the following error message: “Didn’t get the right string ouput. Got: dot-dot-dot for ‘S()’”. Even though the output, according to the instructions, should be: “dot-dot-dot.” Any ideas what’s wrong?

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

    def __str__(self):
        list_char = []
        for character in self.pattern:
            if character == ".":
                list_char.append("dot")
            elif character == "-":
                list_char.append("dash")
        return "-".join(list_char)

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

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

It looks like there's a bug in the error message. The validation did discover a legitimate issue, but it was probably testing a different character at the time.

The issue is that the code is translating hyphen ("-") into "dash", but it should be translating underscore ("_") instead.

If you want to report the error message as a bug, follow the instructions on the Support page.