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rsa14
1,865 PointsHow to add new list as a member of the original list?
I'm confused by this question. I know how to append and extend lists using the list.append/extend method, but here it says it wants the last member of the list to be another list itself. I can add things to a list, but it keeps saying "wrong number (not 6) of things." It's more of a technicality, what did you do?
My code attached has the .extend method, but I also tried the .append method before.
my_list = ["3", "2", "1", "string", "otherstring", ]
my_list.extend("item")
1 Answer
Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsYou don't need to "extend" or "append" anything. The challenge simply wants the last item of the list to be another list (so that the list contains an inner list) containing two items.
Also, when the challenge says "numbers", it actually means a literal integer.
my_list = [11, 8, 9, 'a', 'b', [1, 2]]
rsa14
1,865 Pointsrsa14
1,865 PointsNever mind I got it! Sorry I can't delete this, dumb question haha.
Forgot that you could simply bracket another list inside brackets themselves. I put quotes around the numbers just to try, even though quotes are only for strings. Overthinking on my part, still have a lot to learn.
my_list = [3, 2, 1, "sting", "otherstring", ["item", "otheritem"]]