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Terry Joseph
Courses Plus Student 413 PointsPlease help...
Coding in python please look at the lesson.
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(";")
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}".format(",".join(sundaes))
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi Terry! You are doing brilliantly! You're even managing to complete the hard challenge ... to do it on one line. Would you believe you're off by one space? Seriously. That's it... a single space! It should be joined with a comma and a space. But you have it joined with simply a comma. Try adding a space after the comma, and your code passes with flying colors!
Well done! 
Brian Young
5,708 PointsYour correct!
I took the instructions literally, and changed menu to display_menu which is the only reason I had trouble with the code. ;-) Once I removed the 'display_' it passed...
Yes, once I saw the correct answer, I thought; "I could have had a V8!" Thank you for your assistance.
Terry Joseph
Courses Plus Student 413 PointsTerry Joseph
Courses Plus Student 413 PointsThank you so much!! Im glad i took the time to learn this!
Brian Young
5,708 PointsBrian Young
5,708 PointsI'm probably wrong but you'll have to forgive me for this because you are the moderator and after going through the challenge again I see that it works, but I was following the instructions and in them it asks you to:
"Combine the sundaes list into a new variable named display_menu, where each item in the list is rejoined together by a comma and a space (", ")."
After thinking about it, I believe that this is the challenge I had issues with the first time, so I did as I just did and searched the community for help on the issue. The first time I guess I just let it go cause I felt foolish for the error and for wasting so much time on the problem, but after thinking about it for a minute, I was a proofreader for a number of years and I would have flagged that very item for review..., only because it also says in the challenge that:
"Then reassign the menu variable to use the existing variable and .format() to replace the placeholder with the new string in display_menu. If you're really brave, you can even accomplish this all on the same line where menu is currently being set."
Which in my mind says to complete the challenge as:
Which is wrong and hence the reason I went to the community to research why I was wrong.
Please explain...
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherJennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherBrian Young Hi there! The key here is that it says to "reassign the menu variable". In your example you reassign the the display_menu variable
Also, there's this quote:
Nowhere in your code is there a
menuvariable at all. Instead, you're setting adisplay_menu.