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The code works fine, but, for some reason, it isn’t enough.i don’t really know what’s happening. Please, help. I know is not de better code, but it works.

Your code so far

def calculadora():
    pass
def arithmetic_arranger(problems, show_answers=False):
    if len(problems)>5:
        raise ValueError('Error: Too many problems')

    else:
        first_line=''
        second_line=''
        barra_line=''
        for cuenta in problems:
            operand1=[]
            operand2=[]
            sig=''
            barra='--'
            tradu_cuenta=str.maketrans({' ':''})
            cuenta_final=cuenta.translate(tradu_cuenta)
            for digit in cuenta_final:
                if digit.isdigit():
                    pass
                elif digit=='+'or digit=='-':
                    sig=digit         
                else:
                    if digit.isalpha():
                        raise ValueError('Error: Numbers must only contain digits.')
                    else:
                        raise ValueError("Error: Operator must be '+' or '-'.")
            cuenta_final=cuenta_final.split(sig)
            operand1=list(cuenta_final[0])
            operand2=list(cuenta_final[1])
            if len(operand1)>4 or len(operand2)>4:
                raise ValueError('Error: Numbers cannot be more than four digits.')
            while len(operand1)<len(operand2):
                operand1.insert(0,'_')
            while len(operand2)<len(operand1):
                operand2.insert(0,'_')

            operand1.insert(0,'__')
            for _ in operand2:
                barra+='-'
            operando_1=''.join(operand1).replace('_',' ')
            operando_2=''.join(operand2).replace('_',' ')
            first_line+=operando_1+'    '
            second_line+=sig+' '+operando_2+'    '
            barra_line+=barra+'    '
    first_line=first_line.removesuffix('    ')
    second_line='\n'+second_line
    barra_line='\n'+barra_line
    problems=first_line+second_line+barra_line
    return problems

print(f'\n{arithmetic_arranger(["32 + 698", "3801 - 2", "45 + 43", "123 + 49"])}')

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Build an Arithmetic Formatter Project - Build an Arithmetic Formatter Project

It looks like the problem is with your code not returning a string with the required whitespace