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wpnawzshaq
861 PointsIt is frustrating!
What is wrong with this. I spent too much time for solve this. It supposed to be an easy task.
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(";")
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.".format(display_menu)
display_menu = ", ".join(sundaes)
1 Answer
andren
28,558 PointsThe main issue with your code is that you reference the display_menu variable before you actually define it, Python reads your script from top to bottom, so in your third line of code you are telling Python to look up a variable that does not yet exist, which won't work. Moving the display_menu variable's declaration to be on top of the menu variable declaration will fix that issue and let you pass the challenge.
On top of that though I would like to point out that you don't really need the display_menu variable in the first place, since you are only using the contents of the variable in one place it is not necessary to store it in a variable. Variables are mainly useful for storing info that will be referenced multiple times throughout your code, or that will only be used at a later point.
Instead of using a variable you can just pass the value directly in to the format call like this:
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(";")
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.".format(", ".join(sundaes))