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Hello, all. I was having an issue where I was having extra spaces at the end of my last problem and that was causing the tests to not be correct. So in order to fix this, I decided to use a for loop to iterate over the last element to strip the last spaces on each line, but for some reason, it won’t work. If someone is able to help me, or understands why this is happening and would be able to explain it to me and possibly help me fix, that would be appreciated

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def arithmetic_arranger(problems, show_answers=False):
    line1 = ''
    line2 = ''
    line3 = ''
    line4 = ''
    if len(problems) > 5:
        error = 'Error: Too many problems.'
        return error
    else:
        for problem in problems:
            split = problem.split(" ")
            num1 = split[0]
            operator = split[1]
            num2 = split[2]
            if operator == '*' or operator == '/':
                error = "Error: Operator must be '+' or '-'."
                return error
                break
            if not num1.isdigit() or not num2.isdigit():
                error = 'Error: Numbers must only contain digits.'
                return error
                break
            if len(num1) > 4 or len(num2) > 4:
                error = 'Error: Numbers cannot be more than four digits.'
                return error
                break
            maximum = max(len(num1), len(num2))
            upperbound = maximum + 2
            lowerbound = len(num2) + 1
            if operator == '+':
                answer = int(num1) + int(num2)
                answer_str = str(answer)
            if operator == '-':
                answer = int(num1) - int(num2)
                answer_str = str(answer)
            line1 += (' ' * (upperbound - len(num1))) + num1 + '    '
            line2 += operator + (' ' * (upperbound - len(num2) - 1)) + num2 + '    '
            line3 += ('-' * upperbound) + '    '
            line4 += ((' ' * (upperbound - len(answer_str))) + answer_str) + '    '
            for problem in range(0, len(problems)):
                if problem == (len(problems) - 1):
                    line1.rstrip()
                    line2.rstrip()
                    line3.rstrip()
                    line4.rstrip()
            else:
                pass
            if show_answers == True:
                problems = line1 + '\n' + line2 + '\n' + line3 + '\n' + line4
            else:
                problems = line1 + '\n' + line2 + '\n' + line3
        return problems

print(repr(arithmetic_arranger(["3801 - 2", "123 + 49"])))

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for reference this is what the console prints, also yes I know the tests are for just returning, I am just using the print to troubleshoot

'  3801      123    \n-    2    +  49    \n------    -----    '
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nevermind, I figure it out myself

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