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Margo Oshry
697 PointsHow do i combine a list into a new string joining them with (",") and then using that string with a .format to do more?
How do i combine a list into a new string joining them with (",") and then using that string with a .format to then add that to an existing variable and changing the end value of that existing variable?
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes= available.split(";")
menu= "Our available flavors are: {}".format(" , ".join(available))
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}".format(' , '.join(" , "))
2 Answers
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Pointsavailable = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(";")
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}".format(", ".join(sundaes))
Sahil Sharma
4,791 Pointsavailable = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
available = available.split(";")
menu= "Our available flavors are: {}".format(" , ".join(available))
Notice that I did not introduce the variable sundaes, in your code while using .join() the argument in its parenthesis is a string i.e. available .join() works differently for lists and strings, it joins all the elements of a list using the character that you state in this case " ," a comma in case of strings however it treats every letter/character as an element so it won't give the desired output. For instance: list = ["ab", "bc"] string = "abc" Using ", ".join(list) will give ab, bc while ", ".join(string) will give a, b, c