Python - Budget app

[print.AngryIguana]

Hello guys, it has been some days since my last post here.

I am currently working on the budget app project. I was very confused with the concept and syntax around classes in python so I decided to search for tutorials to check how the syntax works in this project specifically (before that I read the python official documentation). Having checked that, I stopped the video (because I wanna be able to solve it on my on) and now I am trying to set the way that the category class is going to be printed.

I am running into some issues with how to get the description and amount from the ledger and put them in a new variable: Here is how my code looks:

    def __repr__(self):

        n = int((30 - len(self.name))/2)       
        num_asterisks = '*' * n    
        Headline = num_asterisks+self.name+num_asterisks+'\n'

        for i in self.ledger:
            description_index = i.index(description)
            transaction = i[description_index:]

I know I need a For loop to check each index of the self.ledger. But I don’t know how to access the description and the amount.

Thanks to all in advance

[stan-stan]

This might be better if you posted it in the Python category: https://forum.freecodecamp.org/c/python/424

But I personally would have to see more of your code to help you. I’m not entirely sure how your ledger is formatted or how you’re using the .index method.

[sanity]

Try printing what exactly is the i when you are iterating over self.ledger. This will show better what can be done with it later.