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@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. > > -- > Alan G > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld > Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor