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Michael Nickey
Courses Plus Student 13,524 PointsIt should return the string "The sum of X is Y.", replacing "X" with the string version of the list and "Y" with the sum
What is wrong with this code? I see in the interpreter that I am getting an INT but it's expecting a string. Doesn't join() make this into a string by default?
def add_list(my_list):
sum = 0
for _ in my_list:
sum += _
return sum
def summarize(list_two):
list_sum = add_list(list_two)
string_list = ' '.join(list_two)
return "The sum of {} is {}".format(str(string_list), list_sum)
print(summarize([1,2,3]))
2 Answers
James Andrews
7,245 PointsThis is what I used to pass the challenge
def add_list(numbers):
total = 0;
for number in numbers:
total = total + number
return total
def summarize(numbers):
return "The sum of {} is {}.".format(numbers, add_list(numbers))
[Edit] sorry what I ended with was the return on the 2nd function I just hadn't changed it in my work file.
Michael Nickey
Courses Plus Student 13,524 PointsThanks, that helped a lot.
James Andrews
7,245 Pointscool can you make it "best answer"?
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherKenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacherstring_list = ' '.join(list_two)is throwing the error becauselist_twocontains numbers, which can't be joined into a string without converting them to strings first. Try taking that line out completely, and change yourformat()to only uselist_twoandlist_sum, and see what happens.