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MUZ140907 Wellington Maredza
3,014 PointsFunctions
Now, make a function named summarize that also takes a list. It should return the string "The sum of X is Y.", replacing "X" with the string version of the list and "Y" with the sum total of the list. where exactly am i going wrong on this one????
# add_list([1, 2, 3]) should return 6
# summarize([1, 2, 3]) should return "The sum of [1, 2, 3] is 6."
# Note: both functions will only take *one* argument each.
add_list=sum
def summarize (list):
return "The sum of {} is {}.format(str(list), sum(list))
1 Answer
Matthew Rigdon
8,223 PointsMake sure when you define a function that you write it like this with no space:
def summarize(list):
The only other issue you have is in this part of the code:
return "The sum of {} is {}.format(str(list), sum(list))
You have beginning quotation marks, but you never have a closing quotation mark. Right now, Python is assuming that all of that is a string, but it doesn't know where the string ends. To fix this, try this:
return "The sum of {} is {}.".format(str(list), sum(list))