curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-interfaces-by-building-an-equation-solver/664eef158d792a509e8d708a.md
The sub function from the re module enables you to replace text inside a string based on a regex pattern.
verse = 'Always look on the bright side of life'
spam = re.sub('bright', 'spam', verse)
spam == 'Always look on the spam side of life' # True
It takes three arguments: the regex pattern to match, the replacement, and the string on which you want to perform the replacement.
From your __str__ method, return a sub() call passing the string '1', an empty string, and your existing equation_string.strip('+') call as the arguments. This will replace each 1 with an empty string. The result is not refined yet and you'll continue to work on the regex pattern in the next steps.
You should return a re.sub() call from your __str__ method. Pass the string '1', an empty string, and your existing equation_string.strip('+') call as the arguments to re.sub().
({ test: () => assert(runPython(`_Node(_code).find_class("Equation").find_function("__str__").has_return("re.sub('1', '', equation_string.strip('+'))")`)) })
from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
import re
class Equation(ABC):
degree: int
def __init__(self, *args):
if (self.degree + 1) != len(args):
raise TypeError(
f"'Equation' object takes {self.degree + 1} positional arguments but {len(args)} were given"
)
if any(not isinstance(arg, (int, float)) for arg in args):
raise TypeError("Coefficients must be of type 'int' or 'float'")
if args[0] == 0:
raise ValueError("Highest degree coefficient must be different from zero")
self.coefficients = {(len(args) - n - 1): arg for n, arg in enumerate(args)}
def __init_subclass__(cls):
if not hasattr(cls, "degree"):
raise AttributeError(
f"Cannot create '{cls.__name__}' class: missing required attribute 'degree'"
)
def __str__(self):
terms = []
for n, coefficient in self.coefficients.items():
if not coefficient:
continue
if n == 0:
terms.append(f'{coefficient:+}')
elif n == 1:
terms.append(f'{coefficient:+}x')
else:
terms.append(f"{coefficient:+}x**{n}")
equation_string = ' '.join(terms) + ' = 0'
--fcc-editable-region--
return equation_string.strip('+')
--fcc-editable-region--
@abstractmethod
def solve(self):
pass
@abstractmethod
def analyze(self):
pass
class LinearEquation(Equation):
degree = 1
def solve(self):
a, b = self.coefficients.values()
x = -b / a
return x
def analyze(self):
slope, intercept = self.coefficients.values()
return {'slope': slope, 'intercept': intercept}
class QuadraticEquation(Equation):
degree = 2
def __init__(self, *args):
super().__init__(*args)
a, b, c = self.coefficients.values()
self.delta = b**2 - 4 * a * c
def solve(self):
pass
def analyze(self):
pass
lin_eq = LinearEquation(2, 3)
print(lin_eq)
quadr_eq = QuadraticEquation(11, -1, 1)
print(quadr_eq)