repeat_separator

Requirements:

• if, else

• loop with a counter variable

• string building and filtering

• returning a value

Given two strings, word and a separator sep, return a big string made of count occurrences of the word, separated by the separator string.

repeat_separator("Word", "X", 3) -> "WordXWordXWord"
repeat_separator("This", "And", 2) -> "ThisAndThis"
repeat_separator("This", "And", 1) -> "This"

This exercise was taken from codingbat.com and has been adapted for the Python language. There are many great programming exercises there, but the majority are created for Java.

Starter Code

def repeat_separator(word: str, sep: str, count: int) -> str:
    pass


result = repeat_separator('Word', 'X', 3)
print(result)

Tests

from main import repeat_separator


def test_repeat_separator_1():
    assert repeat_separator('Word', 'X', 3) == 'WordXWordXWord'


def test_repeat_separator_2():
    assert repeat_separator('This', 'And', 2) == 'ThisAndThis'


def test_repeat_separator_3():
    assert repeat_separator('This', 'And', 1) == 'This'


def test_repeat_separator_4():
    assert repeat_separator('Hi', '-n-', 2) == 'Hi-n-Hi'


def test_repeat_separator_5():
    assert repeat_separator('AAA', '', 1) == 'AAA'


def test_repeat_separator_6():
    assert repeat_separator('AAA', '', 0) == ''


def test_repeat_separator_7():
    assert repeat_separator('A', 'B', 5) == 'ABABABABA'


def test_repeat_separator_8():
    assert repeat_separator('abc', 'XX', 3) == 'abcXXabcXXabc'


def test_repeat_separator_9():
    assert repeat_separator('abc', 'XX', 2) == 'abcXXabc'


def test_repeat_separator_10():
    assert repeat_separator('abc', 'XX', 1) == 'abc'


def test_repeat_separator_11():
    assert repeat_separator('XYZ', 'a', 2) == 'XYZaXYZ'