Build a Pin Extractor - Step 3

Python
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Tell us what’s happening:

I am stuck with step 3 of Pin Extractor. Firstly, I don’t know why poem should be declared global while being a parameter of the function.

Your code so far


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def pin_extractor(poem):
    secret_code = ''
poem = '''Stars and the moon\nshine in the sky\nwhite and bright\nuntil the end of the night'''
print(pin_extractor(poem))

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Challenge Information:

Build a Pin Extractor - Step 3

https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/full-stack-developer/workshop-pin-extractor/step-3

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the global poem variable is there so you can call the function with a poem, otherwise you don’t have anything to test the function with

it can’t be a local variable inside the function as that would make the function be not reusable

3

Thanks, and the code that doesn’t pass? What is the issue with that?

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are you asked to use print?

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No, and I don’t know why I saw that as print. Thank you.