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Python

Posted by Christian Barry
Christian Barry
Courses Plus Student 3,403 Points

Help refactoring because spaghetti code (splitsville code challenge)

I completed the challenge but was wondering if it could be refactored for readability/better code.

Create a function called splitsville. It will take 1 parameter, an address. For example: '100 E > Main St, Anywhereville, Oregon, 22222'.

Split the string into the street, city, state, and zip.

Return a dictionary with the keys street, city, state, zip_code and the values from the split > string. Example: {'street': '100 E Main St', etc.}

def splitsville(address):
    elements_dict = {"street": "", "city": "", "state": "", "zip_code": ""}
    split = address.split(", ")

    count = 0
    for key in elements_dict.keys():
        elements_dict.update({key: split[count]})
        count += 1


    return elements_dict

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,264 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,264 Points

I'm not sure why this would be called "spaghetti code", it seems pretty concise.

My only suggestion for improvement is that the element names don't have to be a dictionary themselves. The could just be a plain list, which would eliminate needing to also store empty values.