This is a ***** checkpoint with extremely vague insight to whats wrong on a lesson that have functions inside of func

I will admit, this is one of the more difficult challenges at this learning level. I remember struggling with it and in the end feeling that it was a little too complex for the lesson being taught.

The takeaways could be delivered in a more intuative manner.

The first task seemed simple enough. You nailed that one. As did the second. But that last one is a monster.

What they are trying to get us to do here is learn to use the format and join methods. But they do a horrible job of explaining to us what it is they want to do. Perhaps it would have been better split into two extra tasks.

You almost had it!

What you want to do is use the .format method to replace the braces in your string with your joined up list again. And the hard part here is that join method. You feed it in a string literal of what you want to put between each list item and then call the join method on that string passing in the list you made from your split. I mean, even explaining it is insanely un-intuative! I don't know what they were thinking.

That line would look like this.

menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.".format(", ".join(sundaes))

Trust me, these kind of horrible examples of challenges are few and far between here. I've done most all of the Python courses on here (excepting Django) and they are wonderful for the most part.

And for the horrors, your peers are here to help you out! :)

I admit I asked this question with pure rage and anger so I apologize.

Nathan thank you for your input. What enraged me about this is that the lesson check is based on the .format function which none of the videos have gone over yet!!!