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Python Python Basics (2015) Number Game App String length

Posted by Tim Creed
Tim Creed
Courses Plus Student 2,975 Points

Question about strlen challenge

I wrote this code for the challenge but it doesn't appear to be correct, but no reason why. Does it need an exception if the passed in variable is not a string? I copied the code into workspaces and it seems to work.

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

1 Answer

Raz Damaschin
Raz Damaschin
13,670 Points
Raz Damaschin
Raz Damaschin
13,670 Points

Hi Tim,

I just answered this for someone else, the logic is good, just that you need to return and not print.

Solution