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Python Python Basics (2015) Number Game App String length

Posted by Sabaa Talal
Sabaa Talal
Courses Plus Student 733 Points

For a function, how to make the function result return (String)

(Create a new function named just_right that takes a single argument, a string. If the length of the string is less than five characters, return "Your string is too short". If the string is longer than five characters, return "Your string is too long". Otherwise, just return True.) This was the question I tried this code but it did not work can you help me recognize the problem with it?

strlen.py 
def just_right(string):
    if len(string)<5:
        return ("your string is too short")
    elif len(String)>5:
        return ("your string is too long")
    else:
        return True

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

You have a small typo in your elif statement. Remember that Python is case-sensitive, so it matters whether you type a capital or lowercase letter in all of your symbols. A variable named example is entirely different than another variable named Example. If you look in your elif statement, you wrote String with a capital "S", but the parameter's name is "string" with a lowercase "s". Also, you'll need to capitalize the "Y" in "Your" at the beginning of both strings you're returning. That's not Python caring about case there, because it's in a string literal. Python doesn't care about casing about characters inside a string. You'll need to capitalize both "Y"s because that's what Treehouse's challenge is expecting. Once you fix those issues, you should be good to go!