spliting and joining

Thank you guys. That was helpful.

Thats the excactly method because i wanted the menu variable to be a string not a list.. because after Spliting they are no semicolons but the variable is still a List so our first thing was to ...... Point 1. Combine the sundaes LIST into a new STRING, JOINING them with a comma and a space (", "). which you taught me with a ", ".join

because i had already have the MENU variable (if you look at my last line on my initial code) The second thing was to Point 2.Use that string that we JOINED in Point1 a with a .format() on our existing menu variable and replace the current value of menu which again you taught me with a .format()

forgive me i am still a Newbie in Python so my question wasn't very clear but thank you very much your solution was excellent

Hi Terrence,

yoa are almost done :)

you can do it this way:

available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(";")

menu = "Our available flavors are: {}.".format(", ".join(sundaes))
# the format method takes the String element ", "
# that you use for joining the sundaes variable

Grigorij

Hi Grigorij

I have done that too But this section of the question "how can i Combine the sundaes list into a new string, joining them with a comma and a space (", "). Use that string with a .format() on our existing menu variable and replace the current value of menu" is troubling me. I have those variables already from stage 1 and 2, the last stage eish, it has confused me!