Need help with this code please 😊

Question

im a noob and need some help with this code please help.
if the input string is longer than 79 characters it should print as is.
otherwise it should print the string with enough leading spaces that last letter is in coloumn 80 of display.
I got all section covered except when I enter a long string it gives me an error.

def right_justify(input_string):
pass # TODO: Complete this function

value = input("Enter a word to justify: ")
right_justify(value)
len(value)
print((80-len(value))* ' '+value)

Answer 1

if len(value)>79:
print(value)
else:
print((80-len(value))*' '+value)

Answer 2

word=input("enter a word: ")
def right_jus(x):
if len(x)>78:
return(x)
else:
return((80-len(x))*" "+x)
print(right_jus(word))

Answer 3

it's because if the len is higher than 79, you will get a negative integer in your code, and you can't * a string with it.

Answer 4

def right_justify(input_string):
length=len(input_string)
number_of_spaces=length-80
if(number_of_spaces<0):
number_of_spaces=abs(number_of_spaces)
return ( " "*number_of_spaces +input_string)
else:
return(input_string)

input_string=input("Enter a word to justify:")
input_string=right_justify(input_string)
print(input_string)

Answer 5

For a string longer than 80 characters you get a negative number when you subtract the length from 80. So put an if else around the print statement with an extra print to simply print value if its long.

Answer 6

thnx guys you helped me out a lot. I was thinking about the if else statement but wasn't 100% sure.

Answer 7

nevermind, I was very tired and I thought if a word contained 70 letters, len(word) would be equal to 69 ..

Answer 8

ramzi can you explain how my code ends up in 81 characters