🔒 I want to know if my code is efficient or needlessly complicated

[eager ravine]

Basically, I was doing an exercise. The code I ended up writing for it is different than the official answers for that exercise. And I wonder whether that's a bad thing or not.

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[grave hawk]

That's ok, but I'd be unlikely to write it that way just for readability

I'd likely use a loop

[eager ravine]

i see. well, i haven't learned about loops yet, but i will keep that in mind. thank you <3

[grave hawk]

it's good though that you already see that it's best not to repeat yourself in code

[eager ravine]

:D

[rough olive]

if it's me I would keep message as is and do .upper() when printing

secondly to that I'd use uppermessage like your first one because it's clearer whats going on

[eager ravine]

for better readability

?

that makes sense

like you mean you would do this one?

[grave hawk]

you don't even really need a new variable

print(message.upper(), '!!!')

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message = 'Hello'

for i in range(3):
    print(f'{message.upper()}!!!')

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:white_check_mark: Your 3.13 eval job has completed with return code 0.

001 | HELLO!!!
002 | HELLO!!!
003 | HELLO!!!

[eager ravine]

so that's how loops work?

[grave hawk]

it's one example, yes

[eager ravine]

that looks really cool, both readability and efficiency

[eager ravine]

so there are various ways to do loops?

[grave hawk]

python has for and while keywords for creating loops

[eager ravine]

hmmm

i see

i will learn more about loops in the future im using this one github tutorial but i havent gotten to that point yet

[grave hawk]

range makes it very easy to make something loop "a certain number of times"

[eager ravine]

but this is interesting and helpful

[grave hawk]

you can try changing the number inside range(3) to see the result

[eager ravine]

it will print it as many times as the number says, right?

[grave hawk]

exactly 🙂

[eager ravine]

gotcha, thank you for all the insight

[grave hawk]

np!

[eager ravine]

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