Error In just the printing statement

[inst-cicada]

Expected: StringContaining "[3] find needle in the haystack
[2] water the plants
[1] the thing i need to do
"
Received: "[3] find needle in the haystack·
[2] water the plants·
[1] the thing i need to do·
"

I tried to put \n, different print(), and also tried tripple quoted strings but I dont know from where that (·)dot comes when I test the code with npm test. While testing with my powershell everything is fine with no dots but with npm test there is dots. Please help.

Name: Abhishek Joshi

[harigopal]

@inst-cicada Could you check for trailing spaces in your output? It's likely that the dot character is being used to indicate additional spaces at the end of the line in your output.

The test doesn't handle additional spaces within the output lines, at the moment.

[rishabh-karmakar]

The same error persists in my system too. I'm using python and regardless of whatever is done, regex, strip, split, join; nothing works. Removing whitespace, newlines, others, nothing is working.
What is to be done?

[MrAdiii]

I'm having the same issue, where that (·)dot comes when I test the code with npm test with Python

I'm not a specialist but I think its becz windows uses Windows-1252 and npm tests are converting text to utf-8. on Top of that (again i think) python by default uses system encoder "Windows-1252" on Windows and after python 2.0 there is no easy option to change encoding (or I'm unable to find) so that "\n" (Windows-1252) is converted to (·) utf-8 still not sure

• and python3 should be replaced with python in todo.bat to make it run on Windows other wise it gives "Python Not Found!"

I tried my code on Ubuntu (linux) and it works without any problem 👍

EDIT:
found a solution for Python on Windows

instead of print(string_variable) try sys.stdout.buffer.write(string_variable.encode('utf8')) and don't forget to import sys to print to console, (where String_variable is ur variable name)

Hope helps :-)

[rishabh-karmakar]

Yeah, I'll try doing that. Thanks a lot @MrAdiii!

[penanrajput]

I am using Cpp, can you tell me the solution for dot problem ???

[MrAdiii]

I am using Cpp, can you tell me the solution for dot problem ???

Try on Linux, running on Ubuntu fix the problem for me in Python

[rishabh-karmakar]

I am using Cpp, can you tell me the solution for dot problem ???

Yeah @MrAdiii is right, try linux. If you dont have a linux operating sys, try using one with the help of VMWare.

One more workaround discovered was that in python using the print statement with end in no spaces as print(text,end='') also works. Since python by default has end='\n', changing it to '' would help.

[MrAdiii]

found a solution for Python on Windows

instead of print(string_variable) try sys.stdout.buffer.write(string_variable.encode('utf8')) and don't forget to import sys to print to console, (where String_variable is ur variable name)

thanks to
Saurav Uppoor

[penanrajput]

todo app took 4-5 hours to code in C++ on Windows 10 😊, but "\n" is converted to dot(·)
its been 1 day, but couldn't find the solution......
I tried every possible way to encode but couldn't find the solution, and I don't have Linux to test code ☹
Here's the screenshot 📸 : npm test

What's solution of this issue ??

[inst-cicada]

@inst-cicada Could you check for trailing spaces in your output? It's likely that the dot character is being used to indicate additional spaces at the end of the line in your output.

The test doesn't handle additional spaces within the output lines, at the moment.

I fixed the issue. It took because I was having exams. I encoded it to utf8. It fixed it for me. Thank you.

[inst-cicada]

todo app took 4-5 hours to code in C++ on Windows 10 😊, but "\n" is converted to dot(·)
its been 1 day, but couldn't find the solution......
I tried every possible way to encode but couldn't find the solution, and I don't have Linux to test code ☹
Here's the screenshot 📸 : npm test

What's solution of this issue ??

Solution is to encode the output to 'utf8'. Im not sure for c++ but in python it fixed the issue.

[inst-cicada]

found a solution for Python on Windows

instead of print(string_variable) try sys.stdout.buffer.write(string_variable.encode('utf8')) and don't forget to import sys to print to console, (where String_variable is ur variable name)

thanks to
Saurav Uppoor

Yes. Sempai. ;-)

[MrAdiii]

todo app took 4-5 hours to code in C++ on Windows 10 😊, but "\n" is converted to dot(·)
its been 1 day, but couldn't find the solution......
I tried every possible way to encode but couldn't find the solution, and I don't have Linux to test code ☹
Here's the screenshot 📸 : npm test

What's solution of this issue ??

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45575863/how-to-print-utf-8-strings-to-stdcout-on-windows

I haven't tried but, check this