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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Posted by Ian Macpherson
Ian Macpherson
351 Points

I have tested the output, yet the code challenge is rejecting my answer.

Python Stage 4 code challenge

full_name = "John Smith"
name_list = str.split(full_name)
greeting_list = str.split("Hi, I'm {}".format(name_list[0]))
greeting = ', '.join(greeting_list)

2 Answers

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Ian,

You're joining the list items together with a comma and then a space. You want to join them together with spaces only.

greeting = ' '.join(greeting_list)
Daniel Chan
Daniel Chan
11,787 Points
Daniel Chan
Daniel Chan
11,787 Points

Jason has seen the found the mistake already, so if interested a tip for debugging Expected Result:

>>> greeting
'Hi, I'm Firstname'

Test Result:

>>> greeting
'Hi,,I'm,Firstname'

But to achieve the expected result all commas need to be replaced by spaces. as Jason suggested 

greeting = ' '.join(greeting_list)