Build a user configuration manager

Python
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Im on the last challenges 25, and 27, everything appears to be outputting correctly, does anyone have any details as to what these challenges are actually expecting because its sort of vague and to me it looks like its outputting perfectly.

challenges:

  • Failed:25. view_settings should return formatted settings for non-empty dictionary.

  • Failed:27. view_settings should display the correct results and end with a newline character.

# a test dictionary of a users settings
test_settings = {
    'theme': 'light',
    'notifications': 'enabled',
    'volume': 'high'
}

# a list of available settings
setting_list = ('theme', 'notifications', 'volume')

# adding a new user setting 
def add_setting(test_settings, setting_new):

# convert the key and value to lowercase
    key, value = setting_new
    key = key.lower()
    value = value.lower()

# check if the setting already exists and perform action
    if key in test_settings:
        return f"Setting '{key}' already exists! Cannot add a new setting with this name."
    
    else:
        test_settings[key] = value
        return f"Setting '{key}' added with value '{value}' successfully!"

# updating user setting
def update_setting(test_settings, setting_new):

# convert the key and value to lowercase
    key, value = setting_new
    key = key.lower()
    value = value.lower()

# check if the setting exists and perform action
    if key in test_settings:
        test_settings[key] = value
        return f"Setting '{key}' updated to '{value}' successfully!"
    else:
        return f"Setting '{key}' does not exist! Cannot update a non-existing setting."
   
#delete user setting
def delete_setting(test_settings, setting_new):

# convert the key and value to lowercase
    key = setting_new
    key = key.lower()

# check if the setting exists and perform action
    if key in test_settings:
        del test_settings[key]
        return f"Setting '{key}' deleted successfully!"
    else:
        return f"Setting not found!"
    
#view user settings
def view_settings(test_settings):

# format contents of non-empty dictionary
    if not test_settings:
        return f"No settings available."
    else:
        display_settings = ("Current user settings:""\n") 
        for key, value in test_settings.items():
            setting = f"{key.capitalize()}: {value.lower()}" + "\n"
            display_settings += setting
        return display_settings
               
# add_setting test
add_setting({'theme': 'light'}, ('THEME', 'dark'))
# update_setting test
update_setting({'theme': 'light'}, ('theme', 'dark'))
# delete_setting test
delete_setting({'theme': 'light'}, 'theme')
# view_setting test
view_settings(test_settings)
print(repr(view_settings(test_settings)))
print(view_settings(test_settings))

the console output looks like this:

'Current user settings:\nTheme: light\nNotifications: enabled\nVolume: high\n'
Current user settings:
Theme: light
Notifications: enabled
Volume: high
2

please always remember to link the challenge you are asking for help with, it makes helping you much easier

anyway, please see user story 8, specifically the second bullet point

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will do that next time, thanks.
LOL omg i didnt even remember about the instructions there, im always complaining theres not enough details and its my own fault.

that did resolve 25 easily enough, now its just the final one that is failing.

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okay, well its rather silly and seems like a bug to me but all i had to do for the last step was remove “.lower” from after the “value”. I dont really understand why that would fail since the output is exactly the same but id just like to say thank you for your help and time.
heres a copy of what i ended up with.

#view user settings
def view_settings(test_settings):

# format contents of non-empty dictionary
    if not test_settings:
        return f"No settings available."
    else:
        display_settings = ("Current User Settings:""\n") 
        for key, value in test_settings.items():
            setting = f"{key.capitalize()}: {value}" + "\n"
            display_settings += setting
        return display_settings
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if it changes or not, it depends on what the input is, and it looks like the function is being tested under the hood with something for which that makes a difference

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yea i kind of thought of that after, its proably testing something im not thinking of, i know theres so many ways to do things, maybe its just making sure i wasnt doing it in some round about way like i often do lmao :joy: