Keeping track of attendance is a common classroom task. In this challenge, you'll use a **list** of attendance counts to calculate the **total** and **average attendance**.


import unittest
import user_code
import ast
import re   
import importlib
import csv
import unittest
import importlib
import io
from contextlib import redirect_stdout

class TestTask(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_total_attendance_non_empty(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        f = io.StringIO()
        with redirect_stdout(f):
            user_code.calculate_attendance([10, 15, 20])
        output = normalize_text(f.getvalue())
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            "total attendance: 45" in output,
            "Correct total attendance for [10, 15, 20]",
            f"Expected total 45 in output, got: {output}",
        )

    def test_average_attendance_non_empty(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        f = io.StringIO()
        with redirect_stdout(f):
            user_code.calculate_attendance([10, 15, 20])
        output = normalize_text(f.getvalue())
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            "average attendance: 15.0" in output,
            "Correct average attendance for [10, 15, 20]",
            f"Expected average 15.0 in output, got: {output}",
        )

    def test_total_attendance_empty(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        f = io.StringIO()
        with redirect_stdout(f):
            user_code.calculate_attendance([])
        output = normalize_text(f.getvalue())
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            "total attendance: 0" in output,
            "Correct total attendance for empty list",
            f"Expected total 0 in output, got: {output}",
        )

    def test_average_attendance_empty(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        f = io.StringIO()
        with redirect_stdout(f):
            user_code.calculate_attendance([])
        output = normalize_text(f.getvalue())
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            "average attendance: 0" in output or "average attendance: 0.0" in output,
            "Correct average attendance for empty list",
            f"Expected average 0 in output, got: {output}",
        )

    def test_sample_call_attendance_numbers(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        f = io.StringIO()
        with redirect_stdout(f):
            user_code.calculate_attendance([15, 18, 20, 17, 19])
        output = normalize_text(f.getvalue())
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            "total attendance: 89" in output and "average attendance: 17.8" in output,
            "Correct output for sample attendance_numbers",
            f"Expected total 89 and average 17.8 in output, got: {output}",
        )

    def test_sample_call_empty_attendance(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        f = io.StringIO()
        with redirect_stdout(f):
            user_code.calculate_attendance([])
        output = normalize_text(f.getvalue())
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            "total attendance: 0" in output and ("average attendance: 0" in output or "average attendance: 0.0" in output),
            "Correct output for sample empty_attendance",
            f"Expected total 0 and average 0 in output, got: {output}",
        )

def _dynamic_test(test_case, condition, success_message, failure_message):
    if condition:
        test_case._testMethodName = success_message
        test_case.assertTrue(True, success_message)
    else:
        test_case._testMethodName = failure_message
        test_case.fail(failure_message)

def normalize_text(text):
    text = text.lower()
    text = re.sub(r"\\s{2,}", " ", text)
    text = re.sub(r"\\s*([,:?])\\s*", r"\\1 ", text)
    return text.strip()

def change_var(code: str, var_name: str, value: str) -> str:
    tree = ast.parse(code)
    lines = code.splitlines()
    changed = False
    # Collect all assignment nodes to modify
    assign_nodes = [
        (i, node)
        for i, node in enumerate(tree.body)
        if isinstance(node, ast.Assign)
        and any(isinstance(target, ast.Name) and target.id == var_name for target in node.targets)
    ]

    # If nothing to change, return unmodified code
    if not assign_nodes:
        return code

    # Perform replacements for all matching assignments (from last to first to not break line offsets)
    for i, node in reversed(assign_nodes):
        start_line = node.lineno - 1
        line = lines[start_line]
        indent = ' ' * (len(line) - len(line.lstrip()))
        lines[start_line] = f"{indent}{var_name} = {value}"
        next_line = len(lines)
        for next_node in tree.body[i+1:]:
            if hasattr(next_node, 'lineno'):
                next_line = next_node.lineno - 1
                break
        if next_line > start_line + 1:
            lines[start_line+1:next_line] = []
        changed = True

    return '\\n'.join(lines) if changed else code

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()


test_main.py

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Challenge: Calculate Class Attendance

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