Arithmetic Formatter Code

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Hello! I’m currently working on the arithmetic formatting challenge on the PY4E course. When I run the calculations used by the test module code on IDLE my function seems to return all of the correct solutions, with the correct formatting, but there are still 2 tests which I always fail when I run main.py on repl.it. I’m guessing it’s due to some formatting issue but I’m not sure what to change. Thank you :slight_smile:

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def arithmetic_arranger(calcs, show_result=False):
    
    calcarray = []
    toprows = []
    midrows = []
    linerows = []
    resultrows = []

    if len(calcs) > 4:
      return('Error: Too many problems.')
    
    for basecalc in calcs:
      parts = basecalc.split()
      num1, op, num2 = parts[0], parts[1], parts[2]
      if op not in '+-':
        return("Error: Operator must be '+' or '-'.")
      #print(num1+num2)
      for c in num1+num2:
        if c not in '1234567890':
          return("Error: Numbers must only contain digits.")
      parts = basecalc.split()
      num1, op, num2 = parts[0], parts[1], parts[2]
      result = str(eval(basecalc))
      calcarray.append([num1, op, num2, result])
        

    for splitcalc in calcarray:

      length = max(len(splitcalc[0]), len(splitcalc[2]))+2
      if length > 6:
        return("Error: Numbers cannot be more than four digits.")
        
      #toprow
      space = ' '*(length-len(splitcalc[0]))
      toprow = space + splitcalc[0]
      #print(toprow)
      toprows.append(toprow)
        
      #midrow
      space = ' '*(length-(1+len(splitcalc[2])))
      midrow = op + space + splitcalc[2]
      #print(midrow)
      midrows.append(midrow)

      #linerow
      linerow = '-'*(length)
      #print(linerow)
      linerows.append(linerow)

      #resultrow
      result = splitcalc[3]
      space = ' '*(length-len(splitcalc[3]))
      resultrow = space + splitcalc[3]
      #print(resultrow+'\n')
      resultrows.append(resultrow)

    line1 = toprows[0] + '    ' + toprows[1] + '    ' + toprows[2] + '    ' + toprows[3]
    line2 = midrows[0] + '    ' + midrows[1] + '    ' + midrows[2] + '    ' + midrows[3]
    line3 = linerows[0] + '    ' + linerows[1] + '    ' + linerows[2] + '    ' + linerows[3]
    line4 = resultrows[0] + '    ' + resultrows[1] + '    ' + resultrows[2] + '    ' + resultrows[3]

    finaloutput = line1+'\n'+line2+'\n'+line3
    if show_result:
        finaloutput += '\n'+line4
    return(finaloutput)

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Challenge: Arithmetic Formatter

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Welcome to the forum ^^
please provide a link to your code so we can actually see what error is occuring.

Oh thanks, I edited it so it should show

When looking at the outcome, it seems that some ‘+’ and ‘-’ are switched (look at the red line with ‘-’ in front (your outcome) and compare with the green line with ‘+’ in front of it (the desired outcome).

In the first case, that is what is described in the explanation too.

      3      3801      45      123
- + 855    +    2    + 43    +  49
+ + 855    -    2    + 43    +  49
  -----    ------    ----    ----- 

From what I understand from the second error, it expects different display too, but maybe if you focus on solving the operator issue, this will go away (it could be the negative outcome of the calculation that ends up in a ‘display-error’ here.

     32         1      45      123
- + 698    + 3801    + 43    +  49
? ^        ^
+ - 698    - 3801    + 43    +  49
? ^        ^
  -----    ------    ----    -----
   -666     -3800      88      172 

Thanks for the help! I got it to work, I think there was an error with ‘op’ changing back to ‘+’ when the second loop was run multiple times.

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