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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

khoreysmith
khoreysmith
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Posted by khoreysmith
khoreysmith
3,524 Points

Lists and Strings challenge task 4 of 4

I need to know what I'm doing wrong because I'm not sure the lessons in this section cover the .join() function too well. I'll take any advice I can get, but no need to give me the answer. Thanks.

greeting_list.py 
full_name = "Khorey Smith"
name_list = full_name.split()
my_sentence = "Hi, I'm {} ".format(full_name)
greeting_list = my_sentence.split()
greeting = greeting_list.join(full_name)

1 Answer

Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,532 Points
Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,532 Points

join is a method of the string type. greeting_list is of type list as split returns a list of strings, so that's why you aren't able to call join on it.

join works by taking a collection of strings (such as a list of strings like greeting_list) and combining them together with the string that called it being the separator. For example:

words = ["Hello", "World"]
separator = "|"

joined = separator.join(words)

print(joined)

Will print Hello|World