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

Posted by Dominique Gaines
Dominique Gaines
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How do I reassign a split?

Thanks for your help.

banana.py 
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = ';'.split(available)

1 Answer

james south
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james south
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james south
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what do you mean by reassign? to split the string by semicolon you need to reverse your call to the split method - string.split('delimiter') - string being your available variable and delimiter being semicolon. this returns a list of the types of sundaes from the string.