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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Brandon Wash
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Brandon Wash
Courses Plus Student 1,186 Points
Posted by Brandon Wash
Brandon Wash
Courses Plus Student 1,186 Points

Can anyone help me out and tell me what I did wrong?

Great! Finally, make a variable named greeting where you join greeting_list back into a string, separated by spaces. You should end up with "Hi, I'm <your first name>" as the value of greeting

greeting_list.py 
full_name = "Brandon Wash"
name_list = full_name.split()
greeting_list = "Hi, I'm Brandon".split()
greeting_list[len(greeting_list)  - 1 ] = name_list [0]
Matthew Proudman
Matthew Proudman
11,879 Points
Matthew Proudman
Matthew Proudman
11,879 Points

look at the split() function, and go over your programming logic on line 4 this one is bit tricky as it is asking you something complex but just go over what the task is one step at a time.

1 Answer

Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points
Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points

No idea where you got the last line from.

What it wants you to do is use the join operator.

' '.join(list)

So in your case:

greeting = ' '.join(greeting_list)

What ever you put in between the two ', the list will be joined with those symbols.

So if you had:

greeting_list = "Hi, I'm Brandon".split()
greeting = '555666'.join(greeting_list)

You would get out