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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types Use .split() and .join()

Mariya Shklyar
Mariya Shklyar
1,022 Points
Posted by Mariya Shklyar
Mariya Shklyar
1,022 Points

Can't figure out what I did wrong on the last line

available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white" sundaes = available.split(";") menu = "Our available flavors are: {}." menu.format(", ".join(sundaes))

banana.py 
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(";")
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}."
menu.format(", ".join(sundaes))
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

It looks good just remove "menu" from your last line and place the whole line after the third line and you should be good to go.

4 Answers

Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

Like this: 

menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.".format(", ".join(sundaes))
Mariya Shklyar
Mariya Shklyar
1,022 Points
Mariya Shklyar
Mariya Shklyar
1,022 Points

Thank you for your suggestion, Jeremy. But I think I got confused with the Task 3 . Can you see what I did wrong on that one?

Alright, let's finish making our menu. Using whatever variable name you want (other than sundaes), combine the sundaes list into a new string, joining them with a comma and a space (", "). Use that string with a .format() on our existing menu variable and replace the current value of menu. Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing.
banana.py

1 available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white" 2 sundaes = available.split(";") 3 ice_cream = sundaes(', ').join 4 menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.".format(ice_cream)

Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

Task 2:

available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}."

Task 3:

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

So the entire code should look like this when you are done:

available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.".format(', '.join(sundaes))
Chancellor Griffin
Chancellor Griffin
2,212 Points
Chancellor Griffin
Chancellor Griffin
2,212 Points

Hey Jeremy, Related to this, I had a similar issue earlier since the question was asking to make a new variable that's not named 'sundaes'. So I would make it look like:

available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}."
flavors = ', '.join(sundaes)
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.".format(flavors)

I did it this way because the question wanted us to make a new string, i.e. 'flavors', then put it into a replacement menu, but when I did it this way it claimed I was breaking task 1. Any idea why?

Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

I have not read the details of the challenge but I would suggest removing your third line for the last task- I don't think you need two 'menu' lines in there.

Mariya Shklyar
Mariya Shklyar
1,022 Points
Mariya Shklyar
Mariya Shklyar
1,022 Points

I finally figure that out! available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white" sundaes = available.split(";") menu = "Our available flavors are: {}." ice_cream = ", ".join(sundaes) menu = menu.format(ice_cream)