ENTRY_POINT = 'parse_music'
#[PROMPT]
from typing import List


def parse_music(music_string: str) -> List[int]:
    """ Input to this function is a string representing musical notes in a special ASCII format.
    Your task is to parse this string and return list of integers corresponding to how many beats does each
    not last.

    Here is a legend:
    'o' - whole note, lasts four beats
    'o|' - half note, lasts two beats
    '.|' - quater note, lasts one beat

    >>> parse_music('o o| .| o| o| .| .| .| .| o o')
    [4, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4]
    """
#[SOLUTION]
    note_map = {'o': 4, 'o|': 2, '.|': 1}
    return [note_map[x] for x in music_string.split(' ') if x]
#[CHECK]


METADATA = {
    'author': 'jt',
    'dataset': 'test'
}


def check(candidate):
    assert candidate('') == []
    assert candidate('o o o o') == [4, 4, 4, 4]
    assert candidate('.| .| .| .|') == [1, 1, 1, 1]
    assert candidate('o| o| .| .| o o o o') == [2, 2, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4]
    assert candidate('o| .| o| .| o o| o o|') == [2, 1, 2, 1, 4, 2, 4, 2]
