CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Kay
Kay

Reputation: 23

Manipulating list order

I am an artist taking a class on how to manipulate code to make poetry. Python was not supposed to be a prerequisite, but I am not getting it! Please help- we are supposed to make a snowball poem. Here's the code I have so far:

my_string = "you're going home in a Chelsea ambulance"

counter = 0

new_list = my_string.split()

def make_a_snowball (text):
    poem = ' '
    for i in text:
        poem = poem + "\n" + i 
    print (poem)

make_a_snowball (new_list)

The result is:

you're
going
home
etc..

I'd like it to look like:

you're
you're going
you're going home 
etc...

Any suggestions? Help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 70

Answers (4)

E. Ducateme
E. Ducateme

Reputation: 4238

The reason the code is printing each item on a new line is because we are inadvertantly adding a newline character between the terms, when we should be adding a space character.

In the following code, if we replace the \n with a " " and shift the print() function inwards so that it prints every time we loop through the items of the list, then this should work just fine.

my_string = "you're going home in a Chelsea ambulance"

counter = 0

new_list = my_string.split()

def make_a_snowball (text):
    poem = ' '
    for i in text:
        poem = poem + " " + i 
        print (poem)

make_a_snowball (new_list)

This results in:

you're
you're going
you're going home
you're going home in
you're going home in a
you're going home in a Chelsea
you're going home in a Chelsea ambulance

A couple of additional thoughts. In your code above, a counter is not necessary.

I like my code to be somewhat self descriptive, so I might replace this:

for i in text:
    poem = poem + " " + i 
    print (poem)

with

for word in text:
    poem = poem + " " + word 
    print (poem)

Upvotes: 0

Random Davis
Random Davis

Reputation: 6857

If you want to have your whole poem be stored in one long string, here's how you'd do it:

def make_a_snowball(text):
    poem_line = ''
    full_poem = ''
    for word in text:
        poem_line += word + ' '
        full_poem += poem_line + '\n'
    print(full_poem)
    return full_poem

This prints exactly what you want, except all at once rather than line-by-line.

Upvotes: 0

Melchia
Melchia

Reputation: 24234

You just need to move the print method inside the loop:

my_string = "you're going home in a Chelsea ambulance"

counter = 0

new_list = my_string.split()
print(new_list)

def make_a_snowball(text):
    poem = ' '
    for word in text:
        poem = poem + ' ' + word
        print(poem)


make_a_snowball(new_list)

Upvotes: 1

r_hudson
r_hudson

Reputation: 193

for i in range(len(new_list)):
    print(poem.join(new_list[:i]))

Upvotes: 0

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