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Start your free trialTyler Warren
Courses Plus Student 1,033 PointsLost on how to do all of this
I don't have a clue what to do here
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}"
display_menu = menu.format(sundaes)
Tyler Warren
Courses Plus Student 1,033 Pointsavailable = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white" sundaes = available.split(';') menu = "Our avaialble flavors are: {}." display_menu = sundaes.split(';') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split' menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.".format(available) menu 'Our available flavors are: banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white.' display_menu = menu.split(';') display_menu ['Our available flavors are: banana split', 'hot fudge', 'cherry', 'malted', 'black and white.'] display_menu = menu.join(';') display_menu ';' menu 'Our available flavors are: banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white.' menu.join(':') ':' menu.'join(";")' File "<stdin>", line 1 menu.'join(";")' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax menu.join(";") ';' display_menu.join(menu';') File "<stdin>", line 1 display_menu.join(menu';') ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax display_menu.join(menu) 'O;u;r; ;a;v;a;i;l;a;b;l;e; ;f;l;a;v;o;r;s; ;a;r;e;:; ;b;a;n;a;n;a; ;s;p;l;i;t;;;h;o;t; ;f;u;d;g;e;;;c ;h;e;r;r;y;;;m;a;l;t;e;d;;;b;l;a;c;k; ;a;n;d; ;w;h;i;t;e;.' display_menu.join(", ") ',; '
1 Answer
Christopher Shaw
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 58,248 PointsYou need to join the sundaes into a new string, before putting into the menu string you have created. This can be done in one line, but split into two below, to make it easier to understand.
display_menu = ", ".join(sundaes)
menu = menu.format(display_menu)
Zachary Williamson
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 3,347 PointsZachary Williamson
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 3,347 PointsThe challenge says (second line): Combine the
sundaes
list into a new variable nameddisplay_menu
, where each item in the list is rejoined together by a comma and a space (", ").Remember that using the
split()
method on a string returns a list, so your last line isn't adding each item from the list, it's adding the entire list:"Our available flavors are: ['banana split', 'hot fudge', 'cherry', 'malted', 'black and white']."