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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Posted by Mark Keenan
Mark Keenan
13,179 Points

greeting_list.py Why dosen't name_list.insert(0, greeting_list[2]) work?

I can get this to work in the shell but it's telling me that Task 1 no longer passes.

greeting_list.py 
full_name = "Mark Keenan"

name_list = full_name.split()

greeting_list = list("Hi, I'm Treehouse".split())
name_list.insert(0, greeting_list[2])

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

Your last line inserts the 3rd element of greeting_list into the list name_list in the first position:

name_list.insert(0, greeting_list[2]
# produces ['Treehouse', 'Mark', 'Keenan']

Instead, replace The first item of greeting_list:

greeting_list[2] = name_list[0]
Mark Keenan
Mark Keenan
13,179 Points

Thank you.