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Ryan Trebilcock
1,581 PointsI'm told to join the sundaes list using the join function and separate the list items with a ", ".
The problem is the sundaes variable is a LIST since I used a .separate() function on a string to create it. I can't use the .join() function on a list, only a string. What am I missing here?
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.:"
display_menu = sundaes.join(", ")
1 Answer
andren
28,558 PointsThe problem is that you slightly misunderstand how the join method is structured, which is understandable since its structured (at least in my opinion) in a somewhat counter intuitive fashion.
The way the join method works is that you use it on a string that you want to use to join a list, and then pass in the list you want to join as as the argument to the join method.
Like this:
", ".join(sundaes) # This will join the sundaes list using ", " to join the list items together.