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[worthy loom]

@tranquil gate

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[serene tiger]

Looks like it's getting "once upon a python script", when it should be getting "Once upon a python script"

- once upon a python script
+ Once upon a python script

Capitalization matters when comparing strings

[tranquil gate]

im getting the same message?

[zealous laurel]

@tranquil gate what's the return type of your function

[tranquil gate]

return formatted_list

[zealous laurel]

https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html#doctest.NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE

try this?

hmmmm im not sure actually, i might have to do some testing

@tranquil gate did it work?

looks like it's working on a test script i wrote

def test(test_list: list[str]):
    """A test function

    >>> test([1, 2, 3])  # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
    [1,
    2]
    """
    return test_list


if __name__ == "__main__":
    import doctest

    doctest.testmod()

gives error

def test(test_list: list[str]):
    """A test function

    >>> test([1, 2, 3])  # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
    [1,
    2, 3]
    """
    return test_list


if __name__ == "__main__":
    import doctest

    doctest.testmod()

doesn't error

[tranquil gate]

def make_book_list(books_text):
"""
Formats a string of book details into a list of lists.
Each inner list contains: [title, price, type, rating].
The title will have only its first character capitalized, matching the function output.

sample_booklist = 'book 1 once upon a python script 31.45 Hardback Cheap book 2 The Java Jungle 27.99 Paperback Average book 3 C++ Chronicles 65.00 Hardback Average'
>>> make_book_list(sample_booklist)
[['Once upon a python script', 31.45, 'Hardback', 'Cheap'],
['The java jungle', 27.99, 'Paperback', 'Average'],
['C++ chronicles', 65.0, 'Hardback', 'Average']]
"""

[worthy loom]

Hey @tranquil gate!

Please edit your message to use a code block

You are using the wrong character instead of backticks. Use ```, not """.

[tranquil gate]

@zealous laurel im still getting the same error

[zealous laurel]

what did you change

[tranquil gate]

i changed the casing to a capital

[zealous laurel]

i cannot help you if you do not even read my message

sorry

[worthy loom]

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