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Python Introducing Lists Build an Application Multidimensional Musical Groups

Posted by Aizah Sadiq
Aizah Sadiq
2,435 Points

I don't know where I am going wrong

Please help me with joining this

groups.py 
musical_groups = [
    ["Ad Rock", "MCA", "Mike D."],
    ["John Lennon", "Paul McCartney", "Ringo Starr", "George Harrison"],
    ["Salt", "Peppa", "Spinderella"],
    ["Rivers Cuomo", "Patrick Wilson", "Brian Bell", "Scott Shriner"],
    ["Chuck D.", "Flavor Flav", "Professor Griff", "Khari Winn", "DJ Lord"],
    ["Axl Rose", "Slash", "Duff McKagan", "Steven Adler"],
    ["Run", "DMC", "Jam Master Jay"],
]
# Your code here
for groups in musical_groups:
    groups.join(",")
    print(musical_groups)

3 Answers

Mark Sebeck
MOD
Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 37,905 Points
Mark Sebeck
Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 37,905 Points

The join method in Python is confusing. You have it backwards. It's 

separator.join(iterable)

Also notice that they want a space after the comma. So the separator would be ", ". You are then printing the original list. You want to print what the join method just returned. You want

print(", ".join(groups))
Aizah Sadiq
Aizah Sadiq
2,435 Points
Aizah Sadiq
Aizah Sadiq
2,435 Points

so for the separator, do I put it in quotation marks and brackets?

Mark Sebeck
Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 37,905 Points
Mark Sebeck
Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 37,905 Points

Just quotes. The brackets are for the print statement.

Aizah Sadiq
Aizah Sadiq
2,435 Points
Aizah Sadiq
Aizah Sadiq
2,435 Points

I'm still having issues with this

musical_groups = [
    ["Ad Rock", "MCA", "Mike D."],
    ["John Lennon", "Paul McCartney", "Ringo Starr", "George Harrison"],
    ["Salt", "Peppa", "Spinderella"],
    ["Rivers Cuomo", "Patrick Wilson", "Brian Bell", "Scott Shriner"],
    ["Chuck D.", "Flavor Flav", "Professor Griff", "Khari Winn", "DJ Lord"],
    ["Axl Rose", "Slash", "Duff McKagan", "Steven Adler"],
    ["Run", "DMC", "Jam Master Jay"],
]
# Your code here
for group in musical_groups:
    ", ".join(groups)
    print(", ".join(groups))
Jerry Avila
Jerry Avila
5,523 Points

if you add an "s" to group in the first line of code it should fix it.