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Still, the final result is not exactly what you want to achieve. You need to execute a different expression for the characters filtered out by the if clause. You'll use an else clause for that:

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spam = [i * 2 if i > 0 else -1 for i in iterable]

Note that, differently from the if clause, the if/else construct must be placed between the expression and the for keyword.

Modify your list comprehension so that when a character is not uppercase it remains unchanged.

--hints--

You should modify your list comprehension to evaluate the expression '_' + char.lower() if char.isupper() and char otherwise.

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({ 
    test: () => assert(runPython(`
    _Node(_code).find_function("convert_to_snake_case").find_variable("snake_cased_char_list").find_comp_expr().is_equivalent("'_' + char.lower() if char.isupper() else char")
    `)) 
})

--seed--

--seed-contents--

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def convert_to_snake_case(pascal_or_camel_cased_string):
    # snake_cased_char_list = []
    # for char in pascal_or_camel_cased_string:
    #     if char.isupper():
    #       converted_character = '_' + char.lower()
    #       snake_cased_char_list.append(converted_character)
    #     else:
    #         snake_cased_char_list.append(char)
    # snake_cased_string = ''.join(snake_cased_char_list)
    # clean_snake_cased_string = snake_cased_string.strip('_')

    # return clean_snake_cased_string

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    snake_cased_char_list = ['_' + char.lower() for char in pascal_or_camel_cased_string if char.isupper()]
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    return ''.join(snake_cased_char_list).strip('_')

def main():
    print(convert_to_snake_case('aLongAndComplexString'))

main()