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

Posted by adam parkinson
adam parkinson
1,953 Points

Task one is no longer parsing

I am a bit stumped on this excercise

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

2 Answers

Mykhailo Rybintsev
Mykhailo Rybintsev
11,749 Points
Mykhailo Rybintsev
Mykhailo Rybintsev
11,749 Points

You're quite close, although I would have done it this way. You previously split all the items in a string, so it's now a list with those items individually. Try this line by line in your console or in workspaces to see what happens. 

available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = ("Our available flavors are: {}." ).format(", ".join(sundaes))
dojewqveaq
dojewqveaq
11,393 Points
dojewqveaq
dojewqveaq
11,393 Points

Hey Adam!

You are almost there... The correct syntax for the join method would be:

display_menu = ', '.join(sundaes)

So the final code would look like this:

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