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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Posted by Paul Vitalis
Paul Vitalis
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How do you change "Treehouse" in greeting_list to the first value in the name_list variable

I can't seem to figure this step out. someone help

greeting_list.py 
full_name = "Paul Vitalis Onyango"
name_list = full_name.split()
greeting_list = "Hi, I'm Treehouse".split()
paul = greeting_list.find("Treehouse")
greeting_list[paul] = name_list[0]

1 Answer

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Lists are 0-indexed, so the first item has the index of 0, the second has an index of 1, and so on. greeting_list is a list (hence the name), and has three members, so what would be the index of the last item, which is the string 'Treehouse'?

You can overwrite what's in an index by assigning to that index. If we assume foo is a list and has 5 items in it, I can change the last item to the string 'hello' with foo[4] = 'hello'.