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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Posted by Nick Jordan
Nick Jordan
Courses Plus Student 540 Points

Please can someone help? It says my name_list does not match my name

I've attached the script to hopefully show you what I mean

greeting_list.py 
full_name = "Nick Jordan"
name_list = [full_name]
for each in name_list:
  each.split()

2 Answers

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

You need to split your name into name_list. What you have right now puts name into the first spot in your list name_list and then does a loop over that list, calling .split() on whatever's there. Since that .split() isn't assigned to anything, it's immediately discarded.

How can you do the .split() on line 2? You won't need square brackets at all.

Nick Jordan
PLUS
Nick Jordan
Courses Plus Student 540 Points
Nick Jordan
Nick Jordan
Courses Plus Student 540 Points

Thanks Kenneth

I have since come up with this

full_name = "Nick Jordan" name_list = full_name.split() print(name_list)

Great course by the way