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

Let's add a new string variable for displaying our menu items. Make a new variable named menu that's set to

its from python basics

banana.py
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "our available flavours are: {}.".format(", ".join(sundaes))

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! You're doing absolutely terrific. No seriously, your logic and syntax are spot on, it's just your spelling and capitalization that are off a bit. Remeber that challenges are extremely strict and looking for a very specific result. This means it must match to the letter including spelling, punctuation, capitalization and even spacing. Your "our" should be capitalized as "Our" and you've chosen the British English spelling of "flavours" when the challenge explicitly asks for the American English version: "flavors". When I make those two adjustments, your code passes with flying colors! :sparkles:

tanx a lot jennifer