Build a Pin Extractor - Step 14

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Tell us what’s happening:

i dont seem to understand this question, i am lost and confused.

Your code so far

def pin_extractor(poem):
    secret_code = ''
    lines = poem.split('\n')
# User Editable Region
    for line_index, line in enumerate(lines):
        words = line.split()
        secret_code += str(len(words[line_index]))
# User Editable Region
        

poem = """Stars and the moon
shine in the sky
white and bright
until the end of the night"""

print(pin_extractor(poem))

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Challenge Information:

Build a Pin Extractor - Step 14

GitHub Link: freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/workshop-pin-extractor/6855918e87c33c6979d21d3f.md at main · freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp · GitHub

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Hi @pztk.org,

Try adding some print functions inside your loop to help you understand what this code is doing:

print(line_index, line)
print(words)
print(len(words[line_index]))

Happy coding

3

i can do that xD haha thanks im gonna give it a try

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so when i print(line_index) it gives me the number of the lines. when i add print(line_index, line) it gives me the actual lines of the poem. what is confusing me is that enumerate lines in line. yet the “line_index” is the one that is the one that is doing the numbering for the lines. so if i would translate the code into a sentence it would be:
create a line_index from lines and enumerate them and add the lines to the variable “line” placing them next to the numbers?

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enumerate gives for each item in lines both the index, which goes in line_index and the line itself that goes in line