Ex49 tests, assertion error: object != string

Should I investigate how to convert object to string? I think that’s what I need to do here because Sentence returns an object in “parser.parse_sentence(word_list)”.
I know Sentence does this here “self.subject = subject[1]” by taking the second item in the tuple, but i’m missing something because I get the object back instead of a string.

Here is my test and the error I’m getting when I run nosetests:

from nose.tools import *
from ex48 import parser
from ex48.lexicon import *

def test_peek():
    # test peeking at the first item in the list
    word_list = Lexicon.scan('run')
    assert_equal(parser.peek(word_list), 'verb')
    assert_equal(parser.peek(None), None)

def test_match():
#     # test popping item off list if word[0] == expecting
    word_list = Lexicon.scan('princess')
    assert_equal(parser.match(word_list, 'noun'), ('noun', 'princess'))
    assert_equal(parser.match(None, 'noun'), None)

def test_skip():
    # test if this skips while word_list == word_type
    word_list = Lexicon.scan('run north')
    assert_equal(word_list, [('verb', 'run'), ('direction', 'north')])
    parser.skip(word_list, 'noun')
    assert_equal(word_list, [('verb', 'run'), ('direction', 'north')])
    word_list = Lexicon.scan('I run north')
    parser.skip(word_list, 'stop')
    assert_equal(word_list, [('verb', 'run'), ('direction', 'north')])

def test_parse_verb():
    # test if this returns the word from match(word_list..) when peek(word_list) == 'verb'
    # test if this raises ParseError when peek(word_list) != 'verb'
    word_list = Lexicon.scan('eat door')
    assert_equal(parser.parse_verb(word_list), ('verb', 'eat'))
    word_list = Lexicon.scan('bear eat princess')
    assert_raises(parser.ParserError, parser.parse_verb, word_list)

def test_parse_object():
    word_list = Lexicon.scan('bear run north')
    assert_equal(parser.parse_object(word_list), ('noun', 'bear'))
    word_list = Lexicon.scan('head north')
    assert_equal(parser.parse_object(word_list), ('direction', 'north'))
    assert_raises(parser.ParserError, parser.parse_object, word_list)

def test_parse_subject():
    word_list = Lexicon.scan('bear run north')
    assert_equal(parser.parse_subject(word_list), ('noun', 'bear'))
    word_list = Lexicon.scan('run north')
    assert_equal(parser.parse_subject(word_list), ('noun', 'player')) 

def test_parse_sentence():
    word_list = Lexicon.scan('run north')
    assert_equal(word_list, [('verb', 'run'), ('direction', 'north')])
    assert_equal(parser.parse_sentence(word_list), ('player run north')) <---- this bugger

# ??maybe pile
# s = parser.parse_sentence(word_list)
    # assert_equal(s.verb, ('run'))



~~~Lexicon.py
class Lexicon(object):
	def convert_numbers(s):
		try: 
			return int(s)
		except ValueError:
			return None

	def scan(sentence):
		words = sentence.split()
		pairs = []
		for word in words:
				if word in direction:
					word_type = 'direction'
					tupes = (word_type, word)
					pairs.append(tupes)
				elif word in verb:
					word_type = 'verb'
					tupes = (word_type, word)
					pairs.append(tupes)
				elif word in stop:
					word_type = 'stop'
					tupes = (word_type, word)
					pairs.append(tupes)
				elif word in noun:
					word_type = 'noun'
					tupes = (word_type, word)
					pairs.append(tupes)
				elif Lexicon.convert_numbers(word):
					word_type = 'number'
					tupes = (word_type, int(word))
					pairs.append(tupes)
				else:
					word_type = 'error'
					tupes = (word_type, word)
					pairs.append(tupes)
		return pairs

direction = ['north', 'south', 'east', 'west']
verb = ['run', 'go', 'kill', 'eat']
stop = ['the', 'in', 'of', 'I', 'it', 'head']
noun = ['bear', 'princess']

~~~parser.py
class ParserError(Exception):
    pass

class Sentence(object):

    def __init__(self, subject, verb, obj):
        # here take ('noun', 'princes') tuples and convert them
        self.subject = subject[1]
        self.verb = verb[1]
        self.obj = obj[1]

def peek(word_list):
    if word_list:
        word = word_list[0]
        return word[0]
    else:
        return None

def match(word_list, expecting):
    if word_list:
        word = word_list.pop(0)

        if word[0] == expecting:
            return word
        else:
            return None
    else:
        return None

def skip(word_list, word_type):
    while peek(word_list) == word_type:
        match(word_list, word_type)

def parse_verb(word_list):
    skip(word_list, 'stop')

    if peek(word_list) == 'verb':
        return match(word_list, 'verb')
    else:
        raise ParserError("Expected a verb next.")

def parse_object(word_list):
    skip(word_list, 'stop')
    next_word = peek(word_list)

    if next_word == 'noun':
        return match(word_list, 'noun')
    elif next_word == 'direction':
        return match(word_list, 'direction')
    else:
        raise ParserError("Expected a noun or direction next")

def parse_subject(word_list):
    skip(word_list, 'stop')
    next_word = peek(word_list)

    if next_word == 'noun':
        return match(word_list, 'noun')
    elif next_word == 'verb':
        return ('noun', 'player')
    else:
        raise ParserError("Expected a verb next")

def parse_sentence(word_list):
    subj = parse_subject(word_list)
    verb = parse_verb(word_list)
    obj = parse_object(word_list)

    return Sentence(subj, verb, obj)
 

~~~Traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/jdaniel/.venvs/lpthw/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 198, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/Users/jdaniel/PycharmProjects/pytex/ex48/tests/parser_tests.py", line 56, in test_parse_sentence
    assert_equal(parser.parse_sentence(word_list), ('player run north'))
AssertionError: <ex48.parser.Sentence object at 0x10e3d9400> != 'player run north'

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 13 tests in 0.003s

FAILED (failures=1)


Please send help.


Edit 5/21:
I changed the test_parse_sentence function and the below worked.


def test_parse_sentence():
    word_list = Lexicon.scan('run north')
    assert_equal(word_list, [('verb', 'run'), ('direction', 'north')])
    s = parser.parse_sentence(word_list)
    assert_equal(s.subject, ('player'))
    assert_equal(s.verb, ('run'))
    assert_equal(s.object, ('north'))

Hello @sen.py and welcome to this forum.
It was some time ago I did this exercise so I do not remember all of it. But do remember I had great difficulties to get nosetest into my head.
So I used Pytest instead. I recommend you to try pytest too.
If you want to see how I did, have a look at: Pytest for ex49 .

Bonne chance.

So you should narrow this posting down to only the line/test that causes the problem and post that as a reply. I think just doing that might help you figure it out, but also help us figure it out.

Take a look at line 56 in the test specifically.