Why is the for loop just returning one element?-CodePudding

I need to translate a sentence in python using a dict file, while the whole sentence should be translated in one swoop.

My approach was to first tokenize the sentence using a helper method.

After tokenizing was successfully done, I tried to loop over the tokenized sentence using a for loop and comparing each element to the dict file. But for some reason just the last word gets translated.

This is my Code so far_

tokenizedSentence = helperMethodTokenizer(sentence)

    tokenizedSentence.remove(".")


    for word in tokenizedSentence:
         translation = dict_file[word]

    return translation

My Output looks like this so far:

Expected: I like you now

Actual: now

Can somebody pls tell me why I only get the last translation and not the whole sentence?

CodePudding user response：

The problem is that you overwrite the translation variable for each iteration in the loop. One of many possible solutions could be to put it in a list instead:

tokenizedSentence = helperMethodTokenizer(sentence)

tokenizedSentence.remove(".")

translation_list = []
for word in tokenizedSentence:
     translation_list.append(dict_file[word])

return translation_list