Help with the Budget App in Scientific Computing with Python

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#1

I can’t find the difference between the unit test test_create_spend_chart and my implementation of it.

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#2

bad blockquotes, sorry about that

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#3

It would help if you provided a link to your code and the actual diff provided by the test suite, but it looks like you have the wrong number of spaces at the end of each line.

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FAIL: test_create_spend_chart (test_module.UnitTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/runner/budget-app/test_module.py", line 94, in test_create_spend_chart
    self.assertEqual(actual, expected, 'Expected different chart representation. Check that all spacing is exact.')
AssertionError: 'Perc[34 chars]     \n 90|         \n 80|         \n 70|    o[315 chars]   t' != 'Perc[34 chars]      \n 90|          \n 80|          \n 70|  [340 chars] t  '
Diff is 1246 characters long. Set self.maxDiff to None to see it. : Expected different chart representation. Check that all spacing is exact.

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Ran 11 tests in 0.009s

FAILED (failures=1)

A link to the code.

#5

That’s rude of the test suite.

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If I manually recreate a line of what the diff would be, it looks like your lines are one space too short.

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#6

All right, thanks for the help.
Do you know of a way to contact the freeCodeCamp staff? I would like to prevent this issue in the future for other people.

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#7

I’m not sure what you mean by ‘prevent this issue’? What do you have in mind? You could make a suggestion as a GitHub Issue.

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#8

‘Issue’ being that a missing space at the end of a line is considered a mistake by the system. I don’t understand it. Thanks for all your help though!

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#9

It’s part of the spec for the problem. If we diff your string and the output, we have to have character for character agreement. I don’t know how we could easily check for an arbitrary number of spaces after each line.

I think they tried to warn about this in the test suite:

#10

I understand. It just annoyed me because I couldn’t understand the issue. Thanks again for your help and for explaining all my questions.

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