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[wintry bolt]

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[uneven valve]

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[wintry bolt]

@rancid ice

is the setting here?

[rancid ice]

notice my arrows

[wintry bolt]

sorry about that

[rancid ice]

no worries

[wintry bolt]

is this the correct setting?

[rancid ice]

pycharm is a specialist tool, it is not meant to be beginner friendly

[rancid ice]

i use reStructuredText myself, pick the one you like

you had an example of a different format earlier

so look into what those sepcific styles are

restructured text, numpy and googles format are the three most used styles

[wintry bolt]

yeahh, it doesnt seem like pycharm has that exact format 😢

it's just for my exact

exam

i hate writing the test cases

[uneven valve]

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[rancid ice]

no, it would probably not have that

[wintry bolt]

and i got the indentation wrong, which made it not work, and i had limited time

[rancid ice]

use multi carret edit to make quicker changes

[wintry bolt]

is there any easier way to do the >>>

for creating doctests

to make sure the formatting is correct?

[rancid ice]

probably not easier, maybe faster

i dont know the format you want to write

[wintry bolt]

okayy, that's fine then

tysmm for ur help

🙏

this one works pretty well, and is close to the example i sent

[rancid ice]

it is pretty close

what more do you have to add? can you do it for this example so i can see?

if you dont mind ofc @wintry bolt

[wintry bolt]

it's mostly i wanted somehting like this

so one that did

[rancid ice]

alright... want to see how i would do it?

[wintry bolt]

"""
Description
Args
Returns
Raises

Examples

does all the formatting

and stuff for me

i just have to type my info

[wintry bolt]

yess pls

[wintry bolt]

because this takes SO much tim eduring a 90 min exam

[rancid ice]

do you know why >>> is shown as part of the example?

[wintry bolt]

not exactly

[rancid ice]

that is the python REPL

or python shell

it lets you run code, one line at the time

[wintry bolt]

okay

[rancid ice]

do you have the function written already?

[wintry bolt]

i have this one

i can delete the current doctest i have

[rancid ice]

share the text here please

!code

[uneven valve]

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[rancid ice]

ill copy paste it and show you how i would do it

[wintry bolt]

def need_to_buy_ticket(age: float, height: float) -> bool:
    """
    Determine whether a child needs to buy a ticket to enter a park.

    Args:
        age (float): The age of the child in years.
        height (float): The height of the child in centimeters.

    Returns:
        bool: True if the child needs to buy a ticket, False otherwise.

    Rules:
    - A child aged 6 or younger does not need to buy a ticket.
    - A child taller than 120 cm must buy a ticket, regardless of age.

    Examples:
        >>> need_to_buy_ticket(6, 119.9)
        False
        >>> need_to_buy_ticket(6, 121)
        True
        >>> need_to_buy_ticket(5.5, 122)
        True
        >>> need_to_buy_ticket(7, 115)
        True
        >>> need_to_buy_ticket(3, 100)
        False
    """
    # Precondition checks (ensure input is float or int)
    assert isinstance(age, (int, float)), "Age must be an int or float."
    assert isinstance(height, (int, float)), "Height must be an int or float."

    # Determine ticket requirement
    return height > 120 or age > 6


if __name__ == "__main__":
    import doctest
    doctest.testmod()

[rancid ice]

here is my REPL

you get there by writing python in your terminal and press enter

i have a custom repl called ptpython it does different things for me, no need to worry about that.

[wintry bolt]

wait

so

[wintry bolt]

all i'd have to do is write python in my term?

[rancid ice]

and now i run the code

[rancid ice]

to enter the repl, yes

and now i can copy paste the output of my terminal to my code

[wintry bolt]

a repl is just somewhere to quickly test code right?

[rancid ice]

"""
>>> need_to_buy_ticket(6, 119.9)
False

>>> need_to_buy_ticket(6, 121)
True

>>> need_to_buy_ticket(5.5, 122)
True

>>> need_to_buy_ticket(7, 115)
True

>>> need_to_buy_ticket(3, 100)
False

[rancid ice]

it is called Read Eval Print Loop

yes, i use it all the time to run and test code

you are inside python at this point

[wintry bolt]

would it generate the formatting for me at that point?

[rancid ice]

did not have to write this, only had to run the function examples in my terminal

[rancid ice]

the text is as i showed above

the reason why people use this format as an example is because this is what you litterly do and see in the REPL

[wintry bolt]

how do i enter the terminal?

because i haven't learned about it yet

[rancid ice]

windows user?

[wintry bolt]

yup

[rancid ice]

the app is called windows terminal or just Terminal

there are two default shells on windows

[wintry bolt]

ohh

[rancid ice]

command prompt 40 year old system

[wintry bolt]

the windows terminal

[rancid ice]

and Powershell new and cool

but windows does not update Powershell for you, so you have to get it in windows store or using winget

[wintry bolt]

it seems i have it

[rancid ice]

you have windows powershell

or Blue Powershell

Microsoft is bad at naming things

so both windows powershell and powershell are the same app, just different versions

[wintry bolt]

ahhh

icic

[rancid ice]

if you trype python and press enter you will go into the REPL

you exit the repl with exit()

[wintry bolt]

okok icic

[rancid ice]

https://i.imgur.com/9ofv67Z.png

you can check out help in the repl as well

[wintry bolt]

would i even be able to access

the terminal on an exam computer

[rancid ice]

i dont know, i had my exam on pen and paper

[wintry bolt]

for computer science?

[rancid ice]

ask about it

[rancid ice]

yeah

[wintry bolt]

i'm gonna email my prof and ask 😭

okok tysm for ur help 🙏

is there anyway i can get ur linkedin?

[rancid ice]

but now you know more!

[wintry bolt]

i don't think i would alearnt this in class either

[rancid ice]

sure, but its not a thing i use much. i use eivl everywhere

thank you

[wintry bolt]

just lmk when u add it so i can del the msg

[rancid ice]

no worries, got you coverd

[wintry bolt]

okay thank you sm i’ll prolly be in this serber sgain ngl needing help 😭😭

[rancid ice]

come and ask whenever you are stuck

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