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Python Introducing Lists Build an Application Multidimensional Musical Groups

Luke Maschoff
Luke Maschoff
820 Points
Posted by Luke Maschoff
Luke Maschoff
820 Points

Not sure where to start or what to do on this multi-dimensional list.

Not sure where to start or what to do on this multi-dimensional list. Any suggestions on how you would go about it?

groups.py 
musical_groups = [
    ["Ad Rock", "MCA", "Mike D."],
    ["John Lennon", "Paul McCartney", "Ringo Starr", "George Harrison"],
    ["Salt", "Peppa", "Spinderella"],
    ["Rivers Cuomo", "Patrick Wilson", "Brian Bell", "Scott Shriner"],
    ["Chuck D.", "Flavor Flav", "Professor Griff", "Khari Winn", "DJ Lord"],
    ["Axl Rose", "Slash", "Duff McKagan", "Steven Adler"],
    ["Run", "DMC", "Jam Master Jay"],
]
# Your code here
for group in musical_groups:
    pr

1 Answer

Cheo R
Cheo R
37,150 Points
Cheo R
Cheo R
37,150 Points
  1. Review videos (sometimes it takes more than one go at something for it to really sink in).
  2. Pull up a console and just play around with printing things.
  3. Start with small things and go from there.

When I don't understand something, I like to copy the task as comments.

# loop through each group
#     output the members joined together with a ", " comma space as a separator

So first, try to print each group (i.e. list item) of musical_group.

Then select one group and try to print each member in that group.

Then try to print all the members in that group as one long string, using join method.

Then put everything together, where

for each group in musical_group, print out each group where all the members in that group are printed together as one string, separated by a comma, using the join method.