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Maryan Tuzyak
1,495 Points.join() .split() stuck on 3rd section of quiz dont understand it
Alright, let's finish making our menu. Combine the sundaes list into a new variable named display_menu, where each item in the list is rejoined together by a comma and a space (", "). Then reassign the menu variable to use the existing variable and .format() to replace the placeholder with the new string in display_menu. i joined sundaes into new variable by the ",". i dont know what it means reassign menu variable to existing one
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
available.split(';')
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "our available flavors are: {}."
display_menu = sundaes", ".join(",")
menu = "our available flavors are:{}".format(", ".join(display_menu))
1 Answer
Cameron Nilon
15,601 PointsHey Maryan,
You are almost there. To answer your question on reassigning, basically think of it as overwriting an existing variable with a new value.
Now for you code challenge.
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "our available flavors are: {}."
display_menu = ", ".join(sundaes)
menu = menu.format(display_menu) #Note this is reassigning your menu variable with a new value
Péter Juhász
4,768 PointsPéter Juhász
4,768 PointsI can't remember this task, but I assume you should produce the following result: "our available flavors are: banana split, hot fudge, cherry, malted, black and white" but not with replace ";" with ", " but split the string into list and rejoinining the list into string again.
some notes: available.split(';') # this line has no meaning. the python does the split, but you need the result so you should put it into a variable
sundaes = available.split(';') # this is ok; sundaes is a list: ['banana split', 'hot fudge', 'cherry', 'malted', 'black and white']
menu = "our available flavors are: {}." # you can do that but you did not used menu
you can replace the last line display_menu = menu.format(", ".join(sundaes)) which is equivalent display_menu = "our available flavors are: {}.".format(", ".join(sundaes))
display_menu = sundaes", ".join(",") # has no meaning sundaes is a list, and you wrote a string directly after it ", ". Python cannot understand this. You can generally do something with two string, two lists; etc. not with different types. If you have two different types you have to convert one of them.
remember: split: makes a list from string join: makes a string from list