Tell us what’s happening:
Hi, guys!
When I run my code on Replit it fails on 6 tests and it seems to be because of the formatting.
But I’m not finding any indentation error or wrong spaces between the elements.
Could you guys, please, help me?
Your code so far
# Checking the lenght of the problems
if len(problems) > 5:
return "Error: Too many problems."
else:
firstLine = ''
secondLine= ''
dashes = ''
results = ''
for operation in range(0, len(problems)):
[firstItem, operator, secondItem] = problems[operation].split(" ")
# Checking if the numbers has the max of 4 digits
if len(firstItem) > 4 or len(secondItem) > 4:
return "Error: Numbers cannot be more than four digits."
# Checking if the numbers are numerics
elif firstItem.isnumeric() == False or secondItem.isnumeric() == False:
return "Error: Numbers must only contain digits."
# Checking if the operator is equal to '+' or '-'
elif operator != '+' and operator != '-':
return "Error: Operator must be '+' or '-'."
# Adding the spaces
# If the length of the first and second operand are equal
if len(firstItem) == len(secondItem):
firstItem = firstItem.rjust(len(firstItem) + 2, " ")
secondItem = secondItem.rjust(len(secondItem) + 1, " ")
# If the first operand is greatter than the second operand
elif len(firstItem) > len(secondItem):
space = len(secondItem) + 1 + (len(firstItem) - len(secondItem))
secondItem = secondItem.rjust(space, " ")
firstItem = firstItem.rjust(len(firstItem) + 2, " ")
# If the second operand is greatter than the first operand
elif len(secondItem) > len(firstItem):
space = len(firstItem) + 2 + (len(secondItem) - len(firstItem))
firstItem = firstItem.rjust(space, " ")
secondItem = secondItem.rjust(len(secondItem) + 1, " ")
# Creating the dashes line
dash = ''
while len(dash) != len(firstItem):
dash = dash + "_"
# Calculating the result
if operator == "+":
result = str(int(firstItem) + int(secondItem))
elif operator == "-":
result = str(int(firstItem) - int(secondItem))
# Adding the spaces to the result
space = len(result) + (len(firstItem) - len(result))
result = result.rjust(space, " ")
secondItem = operator + secondItem
# Adding to the strings
if (operation + 1) != len(problems):
firstLine += firstItem + " "
secondLine += secondItem + " "
dashes += dash + " "
results += result + " "
else:
firstLine += firstItem
secondLine += secondItem
dashes += dash
results += result
# Returning the result
firstLine.rstrip()
secondLine.rstrip()
dashes.rstrip()
results.rstrip()
if showResult==False:
finalResult = firstLine + "\n" + secondLine + "\n" + dashes
elif showResult==True:
finalResult = firstLine + "\n" + secondLine + "\n" + dashes + "\n" + results
return finalResult
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