Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

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

Posted by Andrey Klimushin
Andrey Klimushin
3,614 Points

Can`t understand why my script is not working

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

3 Answers

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

You are very close! The last line needs to assign the result of the format back to the variable menu:

available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes=available.split(';')
menu=("Our available flavors are: {}.")
new=', '.join(sundaes)
menu = menu.format(new)
Attila Farkas
Attila Farkas
9,323 Points
Attila Farkas
Attila Farkas
9,323 Points

Andrey,

All you are missing is the updating of the menu variable with the new contents. The last line should be:

menu = menu.format(new)

Cheers!

Andrey Klimushin
Andrey Klimushin
3,614 Points
Andrey Klimushin
Andrey Klimushin
3,614 Points

Thanks a lot for the help again!