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Question

Can someone please explain why hackerrank does not accept this code for python?

def plusMinus(arr):

    positive = "{0:.6f}".format(sum(1 for i in arr if i > 0) / len(arr))

    negative = "{0:.6f}".format(sum(1 for i in arr if i < 0) / len(arr))

    zero = "{0:.6f}".format(sum(1 for i in arr if i == 0) / len(arr))

    return "\n".join([positive, negative, zero])

It gives me the error: 

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Answer 1

You will notice that on the HackerRank your function is called without doing anything with a return value. The template code looks like this:

if __name__ == '__main__':

    n = int(input())

    arr = list(map(int, input().rstrip().split()))

    plusMinus(arr)

Moreover, the description says:

Print the decimal value of each fraction on the new line.

So you should print a result. And since your code doesn't print anything, the error message is what could be expected.

Instead of return, do:

print("\n".join([positive, negative, zero]))

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