Budget App: Create Spend Chart

Tell us what’s happening:
I’m missing some characters / spaces in my graph, but my graph matches the amount of characters on the test solution . Additionally, the solution shows I’m missing ‘o’ 's however on my GUI I have them all. I’ve literally tried everything and even coded this in two different ways both with the same results. Please help!

Your code so far
https://repl.it/@EvanVacchiano/boilerplate-budget-app#budget.py

  class Category:
    masterledger = []

    def __init__(self, name): #the below are instance variables for the other methods
        self.name = name
        self.ledger = list()
        self.balance = 0
        self.withdraw_amount = 0
        #print(name, 'constructed')

    def deposit(self, amount, description = ''):
        self.balance = self.balance + amount
        #print('amount', self.amount)
        self.description = description
        #print('description', description)
        d = {'amount': amount, 'description': self.description}
        self.ledger.append(d)
        # print(self.ledger)

    def withdraw(self, amount, description = ''):
        if self.check_funds(amount) != True:
            return False
        self.description = description
        withdraw_amount = amount * -1
        d = {'amount': withdraw_amount, 'description': self.description}
        self.ledger.append(d)
        self.masterledger.append(withdraw_amount) #all withdraws across all categories
        self.balance = self.balance + withdraw_amount
        self.withdraw_amount = withdraw_amount + self.withdraw_amount
        return True

    def get_balance(self):
        return(self.balance)

    def transfer(self, amount, category):
        if self.check_funds(amount) == False:
            return(False)
        else:
            self.withdraw(amount, f'Transfer to {category.name}')
            category.deposit(amount, f'Transfer from {self.name}')
            #print(True)
            return(True)

    def check_funds(self, amount):
        #returns False if amount is greater than total(balance), else true
        if amount > self.balance:
            #print(False)
            return(False)
        else:
            return(True)

    def __str__(self):
        string = self.name
        new_string = string.center(30, '*')
        newlst = list()
        total = 0
        for item in self.ledger:
            #print(item['description'] + str(item['amount'])) # this fixed the dictionary problem from before
            amt = item['amount']
            total = amt + total
            amt = str(amt)
            if '.' not in amt:
                amt = str(amt) + '.00'
            else:
                amt = str(format(float(amt), '.2f'))
            des = item['description']
            if len(des) > 23:
                des = des[0:23]
            newlst.append(des + amt.rjust(30-len(des)))
            #print(newlst)
        total = str(format(float(total), '.2f')) #two decimal places
        # if len(total) - total.index('.') == 1:
        #     total = total + '000'
        if len(newlst) == 1:
            return (new_string + '\n' + newlst[0] + '\n' + 'Total: ' + total)
        if len(newlst) == 2:
            return (new_string + '\n' + newlst[0] + '\n' + newlst[1] + '\n' + 'Total: ' + total)
        if len(newlst) == 3:
            return (new_string + '\n' + newlst[0] + '\n' + newlst[1] + '\n' + newlst[2] + '\n' + 'Total: ' + total)
        if len(newlst) == 4:
            return (new_string + '\n' + newlst[0] + '\n' + newlst[1] + '\n' + newlst[2] + '\n' + newlst[3] + '\n' + 'Total: ' + total)

def create_spend_chart(categories):
    ans = []
    title = 'Percentage spent by category'
    ans.append(title)
    #print(title)
    y_axis = ['100|', ' 90|', ' 80|', ' 70|', ' 60|', ' 50|', ' 40|', ' 30|', ' 20|', ' 10|', '  0|']
    totalwithdraws = 0
    percentagelist = []
    numlist = []
    bars = []
    for i in categories[0].masterledger:
        totalwithdraws = abs(i) + totalwithdraws # total spent over all categories
    #print(totalwithdraws)
    for i in range(len(categories)):
        totalpercategory = int((abs(categories[i].withdraw_amount) / totalwithdraws)* 100)
        if totalpercategory < 10:
            totalpercategory = 0
        totalpercategory = str(totalpercategory)
        try:
            if totalpercategory[1] != '0':
                totalpercategory = int(totalpercategory[0] + '0')
        except:
            pass
        percentagelist.append(totalpercategory)
        #print(totalpercategory)
    #print(percentagelist)
    for i in percentagelist:
        num = round(int(i) / 10)
        numlist.append(num) # number of circles for bar chart for each category
    #print(numlist)
    #print(numlist)

    strlen = 3

    for i in range(100, -10, -10): # making the graph y-axis & bars
        if len(str(i)) < strlen:
            diff = strlen - len(str(i))
            line = diff * ' ' + str(i) + '| '
        else:
            line = str(i) + '| '
        #print(line)
        for item in percentagelist:
            percent = int(item)
            if i <= percent:
                line = line + 'o' + '  '
            else:
                line = line + ' '*3
        print(line)
        ans.append(line)


    # bars.append(y_axis) # work from lines here to line 134 (after graph append) new graph print out
    # lenbars = 11
    # for h in numlist:
    #     h = 'o' + 'o' * h #added additional 'o' for zero percentage?
    #     bars.append(h)
    #     # if len(h) > lenbars:
    #     #     lenbars = len(h) # sets maximum length of the bar / doesn't matter with y axis anymore
    # #print(bars)
    # for n, i in enumerate(bars):
    #     if len(i) < lenbars:
    #         filler = lenbars - len(i)
    #         i = ' ' * filler + i # sets all bars equal length so I can do the zip function
    #         bars[n] = i
    #     #print(i)
    #     #print(numlist)
    # #print(bars)
    #
    # # for i in y_axis:
    # #     print(i, end ='')
    # #     for j in numlist:
    # #         if str(j) in i:
    # #             print('o')
    #
    # for b, x, y, z in zip(*bars):
    #     graph = b + x.rjust(2) + y.rjust(3) + z.rjust(3) + '  '
    #     ans.append(graph)
        #print(b, x, y.rjust(2), z.rjust(2))
        #print(graph)

    if len(percentagelist) == 1:
        dash = '    ----'
        ans.append(dash)
        #print(dash)
    if len(percentagelist) == 2:
        dash = '    -------'
        ans.append(dash)
        #print(dash)
    if len(percentagelist) == 3:
        dash = '    ----------'
        ans.append(dash)
        #print(dash)
    else:
        dash = '    -------------'
        ans.append(dash)
        #print(dash)

    maxlength = 0
    verticalprint = []
    for i in categories:
        words = i.name
        verticalprint.append(words)
        if len(words) > maxlength:
            maxlength = len(words)
    for n, j in enumerate(verticalprint): #finding and replacing list items to make them the same length
        if len(j) < maxlength:
            addspace = maxlength - len(j)
            j = j + ' ' * addspace
            #print(j, len(j))
            verticalprint[n] = j
    #print(verticalprint)

    for x, y, z in zip(*verticalprint): #vertically prints list on x - axis
        x_axis = x.rjust(6) + y.rjust(3) + z.rjust(3) + '  '
        ans.append(x_axis)
        #print(x.rjust(6), y.rjust(2), z.rjust(2))
        #print(x_axis)

    finalsolution = ''
    for i in ans:
        finalsolution = finalsolution + '\n' + i
    #print(finalsolution.lstrip())
    finalsolution = finalsolution.lstrip()
    print(finalsolution)
    return(finalsolution)   

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Challenge: Budget App

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You are encountering here something that’s often warned against, but it can be hard to wrap head around and visualize why that can be bad, without seeing with own eyes how it can unexpectedly affect things.

Notice that Category is having list masterledger as a class variable. As lists can be mutated, appending element to the list doesn’t re-write the variable name, pointing to new object with element appended, but just changes the original object. This basically means, that all class instances will be actually referencing to the same masterledger list and change in one will be seen in the other instances and in the class itself.

This applies also to any instance that’s created later. So at the point first test is run, masterledger already contain withdraws from the example in main.py, and when the last test is run masterledger has withdraws from all tests and the initial example.

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You saved my Sanity :slight_smile:
I was trying to be cheeky with the class variable in my graph calculation, and I’m still not sure why that didn’t exactly work, but I thank you because using the instance variables was just as easy. I cannot thank you enough.

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