Question

The function below takes a single argument: data_list, a list containing a mix of strings and numbers. The function tries to use the Filter pattern to filter the list in order to return a new list which contains only strings longer than five characters. The current implementation breaks when it encounters integers in the list. Fix it to return a properly filtered new list.

Answer 1

Answer:

def filter_only_certain_strings(data_list):

   new_list = []

   for data in data_list:

       # fix here. change >= to >  

       # because we want to return strings longer than 5 characters in length.

       if type(data) == str and len(data) > 5:

           new_list.append(data)

   return new_list

Explanation:

def filter_only_certain_strings(data_list):

   new_list = []

   for data in data_list:

       # fix here. change >= to >  

       # because we want to return strings longer than 5 characters in length.

       if type(data) == str and len(data) > 5:

           new_list.append(data)

   return new_list