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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Posted by hubert chen
hubert chen
12,761 Points

lists and basics code challenge python

What's wrong with my code, I can't seem to figure it out.

greeting_list.py 
full_name="Hubert Chen"
name_list=full_name.split( )
greeting_list=("Hi, I'm X".split( ))
greeting_list[2]=name_list
greeting=" ".join(greeting_list)

1 Answer

Juan Martin
Juan Martin
14,335 Points

Hello my friend.

You're assigning all the name_list to greeting_list[2], the challenge states that you must assign "the first item in your name_list", so it must be name_list[0]. Here's how it should look:

full_name = "Hubert Chen"
name_list = full_name.split( )
greeting_list = "Hi, I'm X".split( )
greeting_list[2] = name_list[0] # I've changed name_list to name_list[0]
greeting = " ".join(greeting_list)

Hope this helps :)

hubert chen
hubert chen
12,761 Points

Thanks alot...been stuck for a while

Juan Martin
Juan Martin
14,335 Points

No problem my friend, I'm glad I could help you :)