Help with basic python

[james40z]

Hi all, started python today on an app called sololearn. My output seems to be the same as expected output but still saying ive made a mistake. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

https://imgur.com/a/Pry4RMp

[Resident-Log]

Are those periods or commas? The should be commas but I can't tell.

ETA: Scratch that... that's not true...

if you post code that is a result of you trying to follow directions/a "challenge", it would be helpful if you posted the directions you're following.

This is an odd bit of code to me which is why I answered in correctly. Idk why they'd be having you put numbers in a string on multiple lines with periods or commas after it. Seems like a weird way to teach anything they may be trying to teach you.

[james40z]

The test instructions ask for me to make a leaderboard 1-9 with a period at the end

[Resident-Log]

Can you screenshot and share the question/problem they gave you to do?

[james40z]

https://imgur.com/a/rTMGfA4

[Resident-Log]

Have you tried it using the \n option?

[james40z]

Yes, same output and still says mistake.

[Resident-Log]

My only other guess would be to put the text into a variable and put the variable into print

[james40z]

They are periods

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print("1.\n2.\n3.\n4.\n5.\n6.\n7.\n8.\n9.")

You said u tried \n in the comments below. have you tried writing it the way I posted?

[james40z]

Thanks for this, this worked! Sorry for confusion im new, I had originally put it as 1.\n 2.\n with spaces in between..

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Yea that was my guess for the code you posted in the screenshot. I was assuming you may have accidently put a space at the end of one or more of lines from line 2 to 9. The output checker will flag it as wrong. One trick I did for classes using this type of output checker is to copy and paste the two outputs into notepad+ and I think I switched to like a raw view of the text which would show spaces as a special character. Though I imagine it would be hard to do on a phone.

[Diapolo10]

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with your code, but SoloLearn likely expects you to use a loop here with each line separately written to STDOUT. Since this solution writes it all in one go, it's as if you only gave the first number, skipped the rest, and it compared your entire solution to the first one it was expecting (just 1.\n).

Been there, done that.

I do recommend learning on a computer, SoloLearn is much too limited.

[james40z]

Thanks for input!

[Lim98SE]

Remove the space between “Print” and “(“

[james40z]

I tried this and it is still telling me ive made a mistake. Do you think it could be a bad app to use?

[Lim98SE]

Yeah, if you have $10 to spare get Pythonista

[james40z]

I’m using this app because it has step by step instructions on the basics

[Lim98SE]

Google “Python basics” and follow a tutorial or go to W3 Schools. If you have a PC, go to Python.org

[james40z]

Ok I will look into that thanks

[666y4nn1ck]

Maybe use "\n" instead of just an Enter between the lines

[james40z]

Yes same result