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ms28
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 1,067 PointsI'm not super clear on the wording here. I get the question, but I don't quite understand the answers available.
We have a list and we want to make it a string... so we split the string. so I'd do option B 'split. It's on a string'.
2 Answers
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 PointsYou use join to put list entries together into a string and use split to break out a string into list entries.
Try messing with this:
string_example = 'this is a string'
print('string example is --> ', string_example)
list_from_string = string_example.split()
print('split on whitespace to get list from string --> ', list_from_string)
string_from_list = ' sep '.join(list_from_string)
print('join to get string from list --> ', string_from_list)
another_list_from_string = list(string_example)
print('every item of iterable as list entry --> ', another_list_from_string)
# output
string example is --> this is a string
split on whitespace to get list from string --> ['this', 'is', 'a', 'string']
join to get string from list --> this sep is sep a sep string
every item of iterable as list entry --> ['t', 'h', 'i', 's', ' ', 'i', 's', ' ', 'a', ' ', 's', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g']
ms28
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 1,067 PointsThanks 🙏