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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types Use .split() and .join()

Sean McKee
Sean McKee
461 Points
Posted by Sean McKee
Sean McKee
461 Points

How do I do this?

I took a day break and have no idea how to do this? It is probably very simple so if someone could tell me that would be greatly appreciated.

banana.py 
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.".format(sundaes)

1 Answer

Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points
Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points

Hi Sean,

  • The error message asks us if we used .join. Looking at the task 3 instructions, it seems that the challenge wants us to create a new string when doing this. This will combine the sundaes list into a string, and join the sundaes with a comma and a space, for the sake of good formatting.

  • We'll then format our freshly created string onto the menu variable, and store that as the new value of menu.

available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}."
string = ', '.join(sundaes)
menu = menu.format(string)

Hope this helps!