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Wayne STL
Wayne STL

Reputation: 11

Return result from a python function in the right format?

very new to Python. I have a definition that I can get to print everything I want with print(), but am not able to find a way to return all that information.

For example, when counting the number of letters, the number and percentage of Es (lower and upper), I want to return the following to be printed by a test:

"The text contains ",  alpha_count, " alphabetic characters, of which ", ecount," (", letter_percent(ecount, alpha_count),"%) are 'e'."

import math

def analyze_text(text):

    ecount = text.count("E") + text.count("e")

    alpha_count = 0

    def letter_percent(ecount, alpha_count):
        return 100 * float(ecount)/float(alpha_count)    
    for letter in text:
        if letter.isalpha() ==True:
            alpha_count += 1

An example of test:

from test import testEqual


text2 = "Blueberries are tasteee!"
answer2 = "The text contains 21 alphabetic characters, of which 7 (33.3333333333%) are 'e'."
testEqual(analyze_text(text2), answer2)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2431

Answers (2)

Jason Atallah
Jason Atallah

Reputation: 119

This should suffice: 

def ecounter(text):
    text = text.lower()
    ecount = 0
    alpha_count = 0
    for i in text:
        if i == "e":
            ecount += 1
        if i.isalpha() == True:
            alpha_count += 1
    percent = (ecount/alpha_count) * 100
    print("The text contains",  alpha_count, "alphabetic characters, of which", ecount, "(", percent, "%) are 'e'.")

Upvotes: 0

John Gordon
John Gordon

Reputation: 33359

return "The text contains %d alphabetic characters, of which %d (%f%%) are 'e'." % (alpha_count, ecount, letter_percent(ecount, alpha_count)

Upvotes: 1

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