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

Jovan Dandridge
Jovan Dandridge
12,835 Points

im able to get the answer in workspace but not the challenge

what am i missing???

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

3 Answers

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points

Hey Jovan,

actually your code works perfectly fine. The reason why you're not passing this challenge is that you have to save the string in the variable menu. You just return the string right now but you're not saving it to the variable menu.

If you write it like this it should work:

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

I hope that helps! :)

Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
20,315 Points

Here's my answer:

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

new_str = ', '.join(sundaes)
menu = menu.format(new_str)

You need to save the updated version of menu under the menu variable.

Jovan Dandridge
Jovan Dandridge
12,835 Points

thanks Tobias and Josh i was able to understand what the question was asking it just sucks there is more then one way to find the answer