Very Simple Python Problem - Help?

Question

Hello everyone, I’m stuck on a string problem in the python for beginners course. It looks like my code output is the same as the desired result but it is incorrect somehow. This is my code:

Print (“* \n** \n*** \n****”)

My output:
*
**
***
****

Desired output:
*
**
***
****

How can I correct my code? I’ve checked to make sure there are no additional spaces as well.

Thank you!
Ryan

Answer 1

Ryan Grant ,

this is the code that is provided from sololearn:

print("* ** *** ****")

most of the users insert new-line sequences '\n', but do not remove the spaces. this creates a problem in the code coach test cases.
so we have to remove ALL spaces in the string!

Answer 2

Sometimes sololearn is a little buggy and just running it again makes one pass the test cases. 🤷‍♀️

edit:
in your code example, there seem to be white spaces before \n. Did you remove them in your actual code?