Deposit Error -- Budget App

Python
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Tell us what’s happening:
It keeps giving me an error when I have successfully done the deposit part and it should pass the test for it. It also says there should be an index for it.

Your code so far

class Category:
  global name
  def __init__(self,name):
    self.name = name
    self.ledger = []
  def deposit(self,amount,*descripton):
    global amountNumber
    global descStrDeposit
    if len(descripton) >= 1:
      amountNumber = amount
      descStrFix1 = str(descripton).replace('(','')
      descStrFix2 = descStrFix1.replace(')','')
      descStrFix3 = descStrFix2.replace(',','')
      descStr = descStrFix3.replace('\'','')
      descStrDeposit = descStr

  def withdraw(self,amount,*descripton):
    global descStrWithdraw
    global amountWithdraw
    descStrFix1 = str(descripton).replace('(','')
    descStrFix2 = descStrFix1.replace(')','')
    descStrFix3 = descStrFix2.replace(',','')
    descStrWithdraw = descStrFix3.replace('\'','')
    amountWithdraw = amount
  def get_balance(self):
    for i in range(len(self.name)):
      starSpace = 30
      starSpace -= 1
    starSpaceHalf = starSpace / 2
    starSpaceHalf2 = starSpaceHalf
    while starSpaceHalf >= 2:
      print('*',end='')
      starSpaceHalf -= 1
    print(self.name,end='')
    while starSpaceHalf2 >= 2:
      print('*',end='')
      starSpaceHalf2 -= 1
    print('')
    self.ledger.append(descStrDeposit)
    self.ledger.append(str(amountNumber/1))
    self.ledger.append('\n')
    self.ledger.append(descStrWithdraw)
    self.ledger.append(str(amountWithdraw/1))
    self.ledger.append('\n')
    print(descStrDeposit,amountNumber)
    print(descStrWithdraw,amountWithdraw)
  def transfer(self,amount,category):
    print('transfer')
  


def create_spend_chart(categories):
  print('')

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Challenge: Budget App

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Thank you for creating this thread.
It would be better if you had provided a link to your code so I am just having a guess here.

  1. self.ledger is an array of dictionaries so only append elements enclosed in {}.

  2. You have so much unnecessary code inside your deposit function. What you really need is one line which appends a dictionary with “amount” and “description” as a key and its respective values.

  3. Remember that every tests relies on your self.ledger array to contain only dictionaries as elements.

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ooooh so basicly im supposed to just append it? and here is the link -->
the project
and does that mean for the title i append it? thanks

5

do i append everything including the title or just the withdraw and deposit

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self.ledger.append({'amount':amount})
    self.ledger.append({'descripton':descripton})
    print (''.join(map(str, self.ledger)))

convert the above lines to =>

self.ledger.append({'amount':amount ,'description':description})

And also instead of *description in function description you can use description="" instead.
This means that by default description will be an empty string unless a value has been specified.

And in withdraw method you are supposed to append (amount * -1) and also make sure that you have enough money in your pocket before :wink: .
Good luck.

7

thanks you i am going to do that now

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I am giving a link to my code just in case you get stuck here forever. I suggest you not to see this until you solve your problem :smiley:.
** https://repl.it/@krishnasai4/fcc-budget-app#budget.py **

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id rather work it out my self but thanks i was wondering can you elaborate on what a return does because i have seen many on stack overflow use it and i think it should help me on this but i dont understand what it does?

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oh nvm i looked on overflow and eventually found one but i seem to be stuck on the get_balance part like how do i find the balance after the withdraw do you mind explaining

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