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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Posted by Karunya Nathan
Karunya Nathan
2,412 Points

How do you change "Treehouse" in greeting_list to the first item in your name_list variable.

I have tried many ways, but it's not working

greeting_list.py 
full_name = "karunya nathan"

name_list = full_name.split()

greeting_list = "Hi, I'm Treehouse".split()

1 Answer

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

Remember the split() returns a list of words from a string. So now after you split them they become lists. to access lists you need to use the " [] " operator like so:

greeting_list[2]

this will access the index 2 in the list, greeting_list. Now in order to change the index 2 with something else you can do this:

greeting_list[2] = name_list[0]

this will change the index 2 of greeting_list with the 0 index of name_list.

I hope this helps.