yes it worked thank you!
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Hello,could someone explain why output contain "\n"
daily_sales = \
"""Edith Mcbride ;,;$1.21 ;,; white ;,;
09/15/17 ,Herbert Tran ;,; $7.29;,;
white&blue;,; 09/15/17 ,Paul Clarke ;,;$12.52
;,; white&blue ;,; 09/15/17 ,Lucille Caldwell
;,; $5.13 ;,; white ;,; 09/15/17,
Eduardo George ;,;$20.39;,; white&yellow
;,;09/15/17 , Danny Mclaughlin;,;$30.82;,;
purple ;,;09/15/17 ,Stacy Vargas;,; $1.85 ;,;
purple&yellow ;,;09/15/17, Shaun Brock;,;
$17.98;,;purple&yellow ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Erick Harper ;,;$17.41;,; blue ;,; 09/15/17,
Michelle Howell ;,;$28.59;,; blue;,; 09/15/17 ,
Carroll Boyd;,; $14.51;,; purple&blue ;,;
09/15/17 , Teresa Carter ;,; $19.64 ;,;
white;,;09/15/17 , Jacob Kennedy ;,; $11.40
;,; white&red ;,; 09/15/17, Craig Chambers;,;
$8.79 ;,; white&blue&red ;,;09/15/17 , Peggy Bell;,; $8.65 ;,;blue ;,; 09/15/17, Kenneth Cunningham ;,; $10.53;,; green&blue ;,;
09/15/17 , Marvin Morgan;,; $16.49;,;
green&blue&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,Marjorie Russell
;,; $6.55 ;,; green&blue&red;,; 09/15/17 ,
Israel Cummings;,; $11.86 ;,;black;,;
09/15/17, June Doyle ;,; $22.29 ;,;
black&yellow ;,;09/15/17 , Jaime Buchanan ;,;
$8.35;,; white&black&yellow ;,; 09/15/17,
Rhonda Farmer;,;$2.91 ;,; white&black&yellow
;,;09/15/17, Darren Mckenzie ;,;$22.94;,;green
;,;09/15/17,Rufus Malone;,;$4.70 ;,; green&yellow
;,; 09/15/17 ,Hubert Miles;,; $3.59
;,;green&yellow&blue;,; 09/15/17 , Joseph Bridges ;,;$5.66 ;,; green&yellow&purple&blue
;,; 09/15/17 , Sergio Murphy ;,;$17.51 ;,;
black ;,; 09/15/17 , Audrey Ferguson ;,;
$5.54;,;black&blue ;,;09/15/17 ,Edna Williams ;,;
$17.13;,; black&blue;,; 09/15/17, Randy Fleming;,; $21.13 ;,;black ;,;09/15/17 ,Elisa Hart;,; $0.35 ;,; black&purple;,; 09/15/17 ,
Ernesto Hunt ;,; $13.91 ;,; black&purple ;,;
09/15/17, Shannon Chavez ;,;$19.26 ;,;
yellow;,; 09/15/17 , Sammy Cain;,; $5.45;,;
yellow&red ;,;09/15/17 , Steven Reeves ;,;$5.50
;,; yellow;,; 09/15/17, Ruben Jones ;,;
$14.56 ;,; yellow&blue;,;09/15/17 , Essie Hansen;,; $7.33 ;,; yellow&blue&red
;,; 09/15/17 , Rene Hardy ;,; $20.22 ;,;
black ;,; 09/15/17 , Lucy Snyder ;,; $8.67
;,;black&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,Dallas Obrien ;,;
$8.31;,; black&red ;,; 09/15/17, Stacey Payne
;,; $15.70 ;,; white&black&red ;,;09/15/17
, Tanya Cox ;,; $6.74 ;,;yellow ;,;
09/15/17 , Melody Moran ;,; $30.84
;,;yellow&black;,; 09/15/17 , Louise Becker ;,;
$12.31 ;,; green&yellow&black;,; 09/15/17 ,
Ryan Webster;,;$2.94 ;,; yellow ;,; 09/15/17
,Justin Blake ;,; $22.46 ;,;white&yellow ;,;
09/15/17, Beverly Baldwin ;,; $6.60;,;
white&yellow&black ;,;09/15/17 , Dale Brady
;,; $6.27 ;,; yellow ;,;09/15/17 ,Guadalupe Potter ;,;$21.12 ;,; yellow;,; 09/15/17 ,
Desiree Butler ;,;$2.10 ;,;white;,; 09/15/17
,Sonja Barnett ;,; $14.22 ;,;white&black;,;
09/15/17, Angelica Garza;,;$11.60;,;white&black
;,; 09/15/17 , Jamie Welch ;,; $25.27 ;,;
white&black&red ;,;09/15/17 , Rex Hudson
;,;$8.26;,; purple;,; 09/15/17 , Nadine Gibbs
;,; $30.80 ;,; purple&yellow ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Hannah Pratt;,; $22.61 ;,; purple&yellow
;,;09/15/17,Gayle Richards;,;$22.19 ;,;
green&purple&yellow ;,;09/15/17 ,Stanley Holland
;,; $7.47 ;,; red ;,; 09/15/17 , Anna Dean;,;$5.49 ;,; yellow&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Terrance Saunders ;,; $23.70 ;,;green&yellow&red
;,; 09/15/17 , Brandi Zimmerman ;,; $26.66 ;,;
red ;,;09/15/17 ,Guadalupe Freeman ;,; $25.95;,;
green&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,Irving Patterson
;,;$19.55 ;,; green&white&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,Karl Ross;,; $15.68;,; white ;,; 09/15/17 , Brandy Cortez ;,;$23.57;,; white&red ;,;09/15/17,
Mamie Riley ;,;$29.32;,; purple;,;09/15/17 ,Mike Thornton ;,; $26.44 ;,; purple ;,; 09/15/17,
Jamie Vaughn ;,; $17.24;,;green ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Noah Day ;,; $8.49 ;,;green ;,;09/15/17
,Josephine Keller ;,;$13.10 ;,;green;,; 09/15/17 , Tracey Wolfe;,;$20.39 ;,; red ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Ignacio Parks;,;$14.70 ;,; white&red ;,;09/15/17
, Beatrice Newman ;,;$22.45 ;,;white&purple&red
;,; 09/15/17, Andre Norris ;,; $28.46 ;,;
red;,; 09/15/17 , Albert Lewis ;,; $23.89;,;
black&red;,; 09/15/17, Javier Bailey ;,;
$24.49 ;,; black&red ;,; 09/15/17 , Everett Lyons ;,;$1.81;,; black&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Abraham Maxwell;,; $6.81 ;,;green;,; 09/15/17
, Traci Craig ;,;$0.65;,; green&yellow;,;
09/15/17 , Jeffrey Jenkins ;,;$26.45;,;
green&yellow&blue ;,; 09/15/17, Merle Wilson
;,; $7.69 ;,; purple;,; 09/15/17,Janis Franklin
;,;$8.74 ;,; purple&black ;,;09/15/17 ,
Leonard Guerrero ;,; $1.86 ;,;yellow
;,;09/15/17,Lana Sanchez;,;$14.75 ;,; yellow;,;
09/15/17 ,Donna Ball ;,; $28.10 ;,;
yellow&blue;,; 09/15/17 , Terrell Barber ;,;
$9.91 ;,; green ;,;09/15/17 ,Jody Flores;,;
$16.34 ;,; green ;,; 09/15/17, Daryl Herrera
;,;$27.57;,; white;,; 09/15/17 , Miguel Mcguire;,;$5.25;,; white&blue ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Rogelio Gonzalez;,; $9.51;,; white&black&blue
;,; 09/15/17 , Lora Hammond ;,;$20.56 ;,;
green;,; 09/15/17,Owen Ward;,; $21.64 ;,;
green&yellow;,;09/15/17,Malcolm Morales ;,;
$24.99 ;,; green&yellow&black;,; 09/15/17 ,
Eric Mcdaniel ;,;$29.70;,; green ;,; 09/15/17
,Madeline Estrada;,; $15.52;,;green;,; 09/15/17
, Leticia Manning;,;$15.70 ;,; green&purple;,;
09/15/17 , Mario Wallace ;,; $12.36 ;,;green ;,;
09/15/17,Lewis Glover;,; $13.66 ;,;
green&white;,;09/15/17, Gail Phelps ;,;$30.52
;,; green&white&blue ;,; 09/15/17 , Myrtle Morris
;,; $22.66 ;,; green&white&blue;,;09/15/17"""
#------------------------------------------------
# Start coding below!
# Task Nr. 1
# Task Nr 2
daily_sales_replaced = daily_sales.replace(";,;", "")
# task Nr. 3
daily_transactions = daily_sales_replaced.split(",")
# Task Nr. 4
print(daily_transactions)
# Task Nr. 5
daily_transactions_split = []
The “\n” represents like a white space. I had it also in mine, but after i removed the white spaces with the strip() method on step 8, they all disappeared
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In that case why it prints just one “\n” if there is more then one white space. A bit confusing.
This is a first index in the list and as you can see there are more white spaces but they are not marked as “\n”.
'Edith Mcbride $1.21 white \n09/15/17 ’
Hey there,
For clarification, ('\n ') represents the new line character in Python. It literally means,“The line end here.” Whitespace on the other hand is represented by empty space (' ').
To remove whitespace, tabs or new lines from string outputs you can use the strip() method. Does that clear up any confusion?
Thanks for the answer. From previous lessons I learned that “\n” represents new line there for it’s unclear why it was printed. My question is not how to get rid of it I’m interested to understand why it was printed.
I understood after replying seraph776. 
The text is written in new line that’s why there is “\n” when I print text.
thanks anyway. 
\n is one of a group of escape characters (special characters that are non-printing and carry instructions for the output device). It is referred to as, newline and does not mean, ‘the line ends here,’ it means move the pencil to a new line, as in carriage return with linefeed.
‘Whitespace’ includes the special characters newline and tab, among several others that have a bearing on spacing, both vertical and horizontal. The space character is the most common form of whitespace, but is not exclusive.
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You a wise wizard! 
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Hello Sir, sorry to bother you, I have a question please, I did exact the same thing that video shows, but I’m getting a wrong and different outcome. my question: why does my code give me 4 copies of each index in the list. daily_sales =
“”“Edith Mcbride ;,;$1.21 ;,; white ;,;
09/15/17 ,Herbert Tran ;,; $7.29;,;
white&blue;,; 09/15/17 ,Paul Clarke ;,;$12.52
;,; white&blue ;,; 09/15/17 ,Lucille Caldwell
;,; $5.13 ;,; white ;,; 09/15/17,
Eduardo George ;,;$20.39;,; white&yellow
;,;09/15/17 , Danny Mclaughlin;,;$30.82;,;
purple ;,;09/15/17 ,Stacy Vargas;,; $1.85 ;,;
purple&yellow ;,;09/15/17, Shaun Brock;,;
$17.98;,;purple&yellow ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Erick Harper ;,;$17.41;,; blue ;,; 09/15/17,
Michelle Howell ;,;$28.59;,; blue;,; 09/15/17 ,
Carroll Boyd;,; $14.51;,; purple&blue ;,;
09/15/17 , Teresa Carter ;,; $19.64 ;,;
white;,;09/15/17 , Jacob Kennedy ;,; $11.40
;,; white&red ;,; 09/15/17, Craig Chambers;,;
$8.79 ;,; white&blue&red ;,;09/15/17 , Peggy Bell;,; $8.65 ;,;blue ;,; 09/15/17, Kenneth Cunningham ;,; $10.53;,; green&blue ;,;
09/15/17 , Marvin Morgan;,; $16.49;,;
green&blue&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,Marjorie Russell
;,; $6.55 ;,; green&blue&red;,; 09/15/17 ,
Israel Cummings;,; $11.86 ;,;black;,;
09/15/17, June Doyle ;,; $22.29 ;,;
black&yellow ;,;09/15/17 , Jaime Buchanan ;,;
$8.35;,; white&black&yellow ;,; 09/15/17,
Rhonda Farmer;,;$2.91 ;,; white&black&yellow
;,;09/15/17, Darren Mckenzie ;,;$22.94;,;green
;,;09/15/17,Rufus Malone;,;$4.70 ;,; green&yellow
;,; 09/15/17 ,Hubert Miles;,; $3.59
;,;green&yellow&blue;,; 09/15/17 , Joseph Bridges ;,;$5.66 ;,; green&yellow&purple&blue
;,; 09/15/17 , Sergio Murphy ;,;$17.51 ;,;
black ;,; 09/15/17 , Audrey Ferguson ;,;
$5.54;,;black&blue ;,;09/15/17 ,Edna Williams ;,;
$17.13;,; black&blue;,; 09/15/17, Randy Fleming;,; $21.13 ;,;black ;,;09/15/17 ,Elisa Hart;,; $0.35 ;,; black&purple;,; 09/15/17 ,
Ernesto Hunt ;,; $13.91 ;,; black&purple ;,;
09/15/17, Shannon Chavez ;,;$19.26 ;,;
yellow;,; 09/15/17 , Sammy Cain;,; $5.45;,;
yellow&red ;,;09/15/17 , Steven Reeves ;,;$5.50
;,; yellow;,; 09/15/17, Ruben Jones ;,;
$14.56 ;,; yellow&blue;,;09/15/17 , Essie Hansen;,; $7.33 ;,; yellow&blue&red
;,; 09/15/17 , Rene Hardy ;,; $20.22 ;,;
black ;,; 09/15/17 , Lucy Snyder ;,; $8.67
;,;black&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,Dallas Obrien ;,;
$8.31;,; black&red ;,; 09/15/17, Stacey Payne
;,; $15.70 ;,; white&black&red ;,;09/15/17
, Tanya Cox ;,; $6.74 ;,;yellow ;,;
09/15/17 , Melody Moran ;,; $30.84
;,;yellow&black;,; 09/15/17 , Louise Becker ;,;
$12.31 ;,; green&yellow&black;,; 09/15/17 ,
Ryan Webster;,;$2.94 ;,; yellow ;,; 09/15/17
,Justin Blake ;,; $22.46 ;,;white&yellow ;,;
09/15/17, Beverly Baldwin ;,; $6.60;,;
white&yellow&black ;,;09/15/17 , Dale Brady
;,; $6.27 ;,; yellow ;,;09/15/17 ,Guadalupe Potter ;,;$21.12 ;,; yellow;,; 09/15/17 ,
Desiree Butler ;,;$2.10 ;,;white;,; 09/15/17
,Sonja Barnett ;,; $14.22 ;,;white&black;,;
09/15/17, Angelica Garza;,;$11.60;,;white&black
;,; 09/15/17 , Jamie Welch ;,; $25.27 ;,;
white&black&red ;,;09/15/17 , Rex Hudson
;,;$8.26;,; purple;,; 09/15/17 , Nadine Gibbs
;,; $30.80 ;,; purple&yellow ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Hannah Pratt;,; $22.61 ;,; purple&yellow
;,;09/15/17,Gayle Richards;,;$22.19 ;,;
green&purple&yellow ;,;09/15/17 ,Stanley Holland
;,; $7.47 ;,; red ;,; 09/15/17 , Anna Dean;,;$5.49 ;,; yellow&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Terrance Saunders ;,; $23.70 ;,;green&yellow&red
;,; 09/15/17 , Brandi Zimmerman ;,; $26.66 ;,;
red ;,;09/15/17 ,Guadalupe Freeman ;,; $25.95;,;
green&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,Irving Patterson
;,;$19.55 ;,; green&white&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,Karl Ross;,; $15.68;,; white ;,; 09/15/17 , Brandy Cortez ;,;$23.57;,; white&red ;,;09/15/17,
Mamie Riley ;,;$29.32;,; purple;,;09/15/17 ,Mike Thornton ;,; $26.44 ;,; purple ;,; 09/15/17,
Jamie Vaughn ;,; $17.24;,;green ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Noah Day ;,; $8.49 ;,;green ;,;09/15/17
,Josephine Keller ;,;$13.10 ;,;green;,; 09/15/17 , Tracey Wolfe;,;$20.39 ;,; red ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Ignacio Parks;,;$14.70 ;,; white&red ;,;09/15/17
, Beatrice Newman ;,;$22.45 ;,;white&purple&red
;,; 09/15/17, Andre Norris ;,; $28.46 ;,;
red;,; 09/15/17 , Albert Lewis ;,; $23.89;,;
black&red;,; 09/15/17, Javier Bailey ;,;
$24.49 ;,; black&red ;,; 09/15/17 , Everett Lyons ;,;$1.81;,; black&red ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Abraham Maxwell;,; $6.81 ;,;green;,; 09/15/17
, Traci Craig ;,;$0.65;,; green&yellow;,;
09/15/17 , Jeffrey Jenkins ;,;$26.45;,;
green&yellow&blue ;,; 09/15/17, Merle Wilson
;,; $7.69 ;,; purple;,; 09/15/17,Janis Franklin
;,;$8.74 ;,; purple&black ;,;09/15/17 ,
Leonard Guerrero ;,; $1.86 ;,;yellow
;,;09/15/17,Lana Sanchez;,;$14.75 ;,; yellow;,;
09/15/17 ,Donna Ball ;,; $28.10 ;,;
yellow&blue;,; 09/15/17 , Terrell Barber ;,;
$9.91 ;,; green ;,;09/15/17 ,Jody Flores;,;
$16.34 ;,; green ;,; 09/15/17, Daryl Herrera
;,;$27.57;,; white;,; 09/15/17 , Miguel Mcguire;,;$5.25;,; white&blue ;,; 09/15/17 ,
Rogelio Gonzalez;,; $9.51;,; white&black&blue
;,; 09/15/17 , Lora Hammond ;,;$20.56 ;,;
green;,; 09/15/17,Owen Ward;,; $21.64 ;,;
green&yellow;,;09/15/17,Malcolm Morales ;,;
$24.99 ;,; green&yellow&black;,; 09/15/17 ,
Eric Mcdaniel ;,;$29.70;,; green ;,; 09/15/17
,Madeline Estrada;,; $15.52;,;green;,; 09/15/17
, Leticia Manning;,;$15.70 ;,; green&purple;,;
09/15/17 , Mario Wallace ;,; $12.36 ;,;green ;,;
09/15/17,Lewis Glover;,; $13.66 ;,;
green&white;,;09/15/17, Gail Phelps ;,;$30.52
;,; green&white&blue ;,; 09/15/17 , Myrtle Morris
;,; $22.66 ;,; green&white&blue;,;09/15/17"”"
#------------------------------------------------
Start coding below!
daily_sales_replaced = daily_sales.replace(“;,;”, “+”)
daily_transactions = daily_sales_replaced.split(“,”)
daily_transactions_split =
for transaction in daily_transactions:
daily_transactions_split.append(transaction.split(“+”))
transactions_clean =
for transaction in daily_transactions_split:
transaction_clean =
for data_point in transaction:
transaction_clean.append(data_point.replace(“\n”, “”).strip(" "))
transactions_clean.append(transaction_clean)
customers =
sales =
thread_sold =
for transaction in transactions_clean:
customers.append(transaction[0])
sales.append(transaction[1])
thread_sold.append(transaction[2])
print(transactions_clean)
In the above, there is a list initialized before the outer loop. That list will be updated on each iteration of this loop. Then there is a second list which is initialized at the start of each iteration. This list gets updated with each iteration of the inner loop. On the completion of that loop, the outer list is updated. Be sure your indentation is set so that the outer list is not inside the inner loop.
transactions_clean = []
for transaction in daily_transactions_split:
transaction_clean = []
for data_point in transaction:
transaction_clean.append(data_point.replace(“\n”, “”).strip(" "))
transactions_clean.append(transaction_clean)
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Thank you very much Sir, that solved my problem!!!
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Hi there, mtf,
thank you for your work here. I had the same issue- getting 4x the needed result. Do you think maybe the issue is the Instructors solution on the exercise? Looks like theres a spacing there on the final line, maybe it confused people. As for why his code worked, I am sure your higher knowledge on the language will correct me if im wrong. Thank you in advance!
In the video the screen width forces the code to wrap around, thus obfuscating the difference in indentation of the two lines. It might be further distorted by mixed spaces and tabs. We are left to our own awareness of the two different block levels. Until the video is updated we are stuck with this repeating problem.
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And, if you check the forums…you’ll find about 50 threads (slight–but not really-- exaggeration) of ppl with the same indentation issue…for years.
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I have the same issue, I realized my transactions lists are repeating 4 times each, but I don’t understand why, can anyone help?
This is a problem a lot of folks are having due to the video throwing them off. Be sure that only one list is appended inside the inner loop. Out-indent the line after that.
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Thaanks, I was having the same issue, came here looking for this!
And, for some reason I don’t understand, my output was correct without using “.replace” like in the video, meaning, I did not get the “\n” character in my output.
My code:
transactions_clean = []
for transaction in daily_transactions_split:
transaction_clean = []
for data_point in transaction:
transaction_clean.append(data_point.strip())
transactions_clean.append(transaction_clean)
print(transactions_clean)
Output:
[['Edith Mcbride', '$1.21', 'white', '09/15/17'], ['Herbert Tran', '$7.29', 'white&blue', '09/15/17'], ['Paul Clarke', '$12.52', 'white&blue', '09/15/17'], ['Lucille Caldwell', '$5.13', 'white', '09/15/17'], ['Eduardo George', '$20.39', 'white&yellow', '09/15/17'],...
why??
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transactions_clean =
for trans in daily_transactions_split:
transaction_clean =
for data in trans:
transaction_clean.append(data.replace(“\n”, " “).strip(” "))
transactions_clean.append(transaction_clean)
print(transactions_clean[0])
I printed out index 0 and got
[[‘Edith Mcbride’, ‘$1.21’, ‘white’, ‘09/15/17’]
I was hoping for it to return all the names but i’m not sure where I may have went wrong
also, I get the desired output when I print(transaction_clean) as opposed to transactions_clean.