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John West
199 PointsNo idea what this code is even trying to ask me to do...
yeah as states, no idea.
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.".format(
display_menu = sundaes.join(", ")
2 Answers
Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,736 Points- you need to call the
join()method on the string and pass in the list as the argument, not the other way around - they want you to call
.format()on themenuvariable and pass indisplay_menuas an argument. You can't do that until after you've assigned thedisplay_menuvariable. So the way they're describing it is to assign themenuvariable twice, once where we set its value to "Our available flavors are: {}.", and then again later on where we call .format() which will substitute "{}" for a value, in this case you'll pass in `display_menu'.
Let me know if you have more questions.
dojewqveaq
11,393 PointsHey John,
you are doing great. In the 3rd line of your code, you are missing a closing paranthesis after the "format(". So, the menu variable declaration would look something like this:
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.".format()
Also, at the display_menu variable, you want it to join the items in sundaes by a ", ", not the other way around. So it would look something like this:
display_menu = ", ".join(sundaes)