Tell us what’s happening:
I have changed the value of card_number variable,But It shows that my code is wrong.
Your code so far
# User Editable Region
def verify_card_number(card_number):
sum_of_odd_digits = 0
card_number_reversed = card_number[::-1]
odd_digits = card_number_reversed[::2]
for digit in odd_digits:
sum_of_odd_digits += int(digit)
sum_of_even_digits = 0
even_digits = card_number_reversed[1::2]
for digit in even_digits:
number = int(digit) * 2
if number >= 10:
number = (number // 10) + (number % 10)
sum_of_even_digits += number
total = sum_of_odd_digits + sum_of_even_digits
return total % 10 == 0
def main():
card_number="4111-1111-4555-1141"
card_translation = str.maketrans({'-': '', ' ': ''})
translated_card_number = card_number.translate(card_translation)
verify_card_number(translated_card_number)
print(card_number)
main()
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Challenge Information:
Learn How to Work with Numbers and Strings by Implementing the Luhn Algorithm – Step 35
You need to change the card_number
variable.
change the
card_number
back to something valid
card_number="4111-1111-4555-1141"
Hang on. I don’t think that’s the actual issue. You see it appears that they deleted the “INVALID!” and “VALID!” output from the seeded code.
These four lines are needed to proceed.
if verify_card_number(translated_card_number):
print('VALID!')
else:
print('INVALID!')
Without them, our challenge has no way of knowing if they actually updated the card_number
variable to be something valid.
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remove the
verify_card_number
You removed the print calls from main
instead.
Try to reset the step and double check the instructions