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House Trigo
36,620 PointsSplitting and Joining (3 of 3)
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}".format(", ".join(sundaes))
Bummer! Didn't find the right series of sundaes and commas in menu.
2 Answers
Ferdinand Pretorius
18,705 PointsHi House,
The code you have is correct, from what I can tell anyway, I think it's just the specific challenge and how the test was written. I've done my challenge as follow:
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(";")
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}."
menu = menu.format(", ".join(sundaes))
Hope this helps!
Lance Gilbert
686 PointsI just ran into this "issue" -- how the challenge/test is setup. I had the code syntax correct for part 3, added to end of menu variable ... but the test is structured to modify menu with a new line of code ... frustrating to say the least, burned some time on that one!
Ferdinand Pretorius
18,705 PointsI know, it is rather frustrating at times, but I can understand that writing some of these tests can be quite hard. It is especially true when testing .format on strings.
House Trigo
36,620 PointsHouse Trigo
36,620 PointsHey Ferdinand,
I compared our solutions and it turns out that I forgot the period "." at the end of my menu string in task 2.
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}."It's weird how this error allowed me to pass task 2 in the first place. Probably a bug in the challenge; hope it gets fixed soon.
Thanks for your help!
Ferdinand Pretorius
18,705 PointsFerdinand Pretorius
18,705 PointsI agree that is strange, I've made that mistake countless times, probably why I didn't pick up on it :p .
Either ways, I guess the bigger picture is that Treehouse does not only teach coding, but proper use of punctuation as well ( even if it is in a string :) )
Take care!