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Josh Goodhardt
22,119 PointsConvert string into list
I am having issue with the second stage, making my list become a string. Any ideas?
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
available.split('; ')
sundaes = available
1 Answer
Manish Giri
16,266 PointsThe first problem lies here -
available.split('; ')
sundaes = available
You're splitting your string into a list on this line - available.split('; '), but this does not change the string available itself. This returns a new list instead. Since you're not saving the return value anywhere, you're essentially losing the returned list. On the next line when you write - sundaes = available, this just sets sundaes to the original string itself.
The second problem is here -available.split('; '). You should split on just ;. You have a space after ; currently.
Josh Goodhardt
22,119 PointsJosh Goodhardt
22,119 PointsThanks for that advice. How do I convert that return value from a list to a string? What do I need to do in between to make it work?
Manish Giri
16,266 PointsManish Giri
16,266 PointsWhen you use
.split()onavailable, you can just assign the return value tosundaes, like so -sundaes = available.split(";")