[Tutor] Pycharm Edu Lesson 3, Task 7

[David Wolfe]

Thanks all for the help.

Pycharm just posted an update to their Pycharm Edu product, and when I
re-ran the script, everything was fine.

Best,
David

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 4:27 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org>
wrote:

> On 02/05/17 01:42, David Wolfe wrote:
>
> > I'm working through Pycharm Edu, and I'm stuck on the following:
> >
> > phrase = """
> > It is a really long string
> > triple-quoted strings are used
> > to define multi-line strings
> > """
> > first_half = phrase[:len(phrase)//2]
> > print(first_half)
> >
> >
> > The instructions are:
> > The len() function is used to count how many characters a string
> contains.
> >
> > Get the first half of the string stored in the variable phrase.
> > Note: Remember about type conversion.
>
> I'm assuming this is only part of the story since the instructions don't
> make sense. There is no need for type conversion here.
>
> > and my output is:
> >
> > It is a really long string
> > triple-quoted st
> >
> > which is what I'm supposed to get, but I keep getting the error message
> > "Too short string in the output"
>
> I don't know the PyCharm IDE but is that all it says?
> I'd expect a bit more information about where the error lies.
> It certainly isn't obvious and I don't get any such error when
> I execute your code in IDLE.
>
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