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Simple calculation

Lesson 21 of 29 in Coddy's Calculator project using Python course.

We are done with the helper function!

Now let's make the real parse function, the goal of this function is to get string and parse it into our structured format which eval gets.

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Challenge

Easy

Create a function parse which gets string and returns a structured format.

This time we are going to deal only with simple calculation, with one operator.

Examples:

  • parse('1+2')  ->  ['+', 1, 2]
  • parse('  3*  5')  ->  ['*', 3, 5]
  • parse('3 pow 2.5')  ->  ['pow', 3, 2.5]

Make use of get_next and struct functions.

Note that before everything you must remove all the whitespaces!

Try it yourself

def calc(op, n1, n2=None):
    if not isinstance(n1, int) and not isinstance(n1, float):
        raise Exception('Invalid number "' + str(n1) + '"')

    if n2 is None:
        if op == '+' or op == 'add':
            return n1
        if op == '-' or op == 'sub':
            return -n1

        raise Exception('Invalid operator "' + op + '"')

    if not isinstance(n2, int) and not isinstance(n2, float):
        raise Exception('Invalid number "' + str(n2) + '"')

    if op == '+' or op == 'add':
        return n1 + n2
    if op == '-' or op == 'sub':
        return n1 - n2
    if op == '*' or op == 'mul':
        return n1 * n2
    if op == '/' or op == 'div':
        if n2 == 0:
            raise Exception("Division by zero")
        return n1 / n2
    if op == '%' or op == 'mod':
        if n2 == 0:
            raise Exception("Division by zero")
        return n1 % n2
    if op == '^' or op == 'pow':
        return n1 ** n2

    raise Exception('Invalid operator "' + op + '"')


def eval(lst):
    if not isinstance(lst, list):
        raise Exception('Failed to evaluate "' + str(lst) + '"')
    if len(lst) == 2:
        op = lst[0]
        n = lst[1]
        if not isinstance(n, list):
            return calc(op, n)

        if isinstance(n, list):
            n = eval(n)

        return calc(op, n)
    elif len(lst) == 3:
        op = lst[0]
        n1 = lst[1]
        n2 = lst[2]
        if not isinstance(n1, list) and not isinstance(n2, list):
            return calc(op, n1, n2)
        
        if isinstance(n1, list):
            n1 = eval(n1)
        if isinstance(n2, list):
            n2 = eval(n2)

        return calc(op, n1, n2)
    else:
        raise Exception('Failed to evaluate "' + str(lst) + '"')


LEVEL_TWO_OPERATORS = ['+', '-', 'add', 'sub']
LEVEL_ONE_OPERATORS = ['*', '/', '%', 'mul', 'div', 'mod']
FUNCTIONS_OPERATORS = ['^', 'pow']
def struct(lst):
    if not isinstance(lst, list) or len(lst) <= 1:
        raise Exception('Failed to structure "' + str(lst) + '"')

    if len(lst) == 2:
        return lst

    lst_cpy = lst
    operators_groups = [FUNCTIONS_OPERATORS, LEVEL_ONE_OPERATORS, LEVEL_TWO_OPERATORS]
    for operators_group in operators_groups:
        i = 0
        while i < len(lst):
            if lst[i] in operators_group:
                if len(lst) - 1 == i:
                    raise Exception('Failed to structure "' + str(lst_cpy) + '"')
                if len(lst) == 3:
                    return [lst[i], lst[i - 1], lst[i + 1]]
                temp = lst[:i - 1]
                temp.append([lst[i], lst[i - 1], lst[i + 1]])
                temp += lst[i + 2:]
                lst = temp
            else:
                i += 1

    return lst


NUMBERS = ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9']
def get_next(s, i):
    if i >= len(s):
        raise Exception('End of string')
    res = ''
    if s[i] in NUMBERS or s[i] == '.':
        is_float = False
        while i < len(s) and (s[i] in NUMBERS or s[i] == '.'):
            res += s[i]
            if s[i] == '.':
                is_float = True
            i += 1

        if is_float:
            return float(res)
        return int(res)
    else:
        while i < len(s) and not (s[i] in NUMBERS or s[i] == '.'):
            res += s[i]
            i += 1

        return res

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