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Python

Posted by Diego Murray
Diego Murray
2,515 Points

Python Basics - HELP

QUESTION Great! Finally, make a variable named greeting where you join greeting_list back into a string, separated by spaces. You should end up with "Hi, I'm <your first name>" as the value of greeting.

MY CODE

full_name = "Diego Murray"
name_list = (full_name).split(" ")

greeting_list = "Hi, I'm {}".format(full_name).split()

greeting_list[2] = name_list[0]

greeting = " ".join(greeting_list)

CODE CHALLENGE RESPONSE Bummer! Your name_list's last item shouldn't be in your greeting variable!

I put this code in the SHELL and it seemed to work fine.

Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points

Do you mind linking me to the question?

3 Answers

rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points

I think your greeting_string may not be what the challenge is requesting. The code for that specific step looks good.

full_name = "Diego Murray"
name_list = (full_name).split(" ")

# This is equal to ["Hi," "I'm", "Diego", "Murray"]
# greeting_list = "Hi, I'm {}".format(full_name).split() 

greeting_list = "Hi, I'm Treehouse.".split() # I added this line to test your step code below.

greeting_list[2] = name_list[0]

greeting = " ".join(greeting_list)
Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points
Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points

The correct answer that makes grader happy is this version.

full_name = "Diego Murray"
name_list = full_name.split(" ")

greeting_list = "Hi, I'm Treehouse".split(" ")

greeting_list[2] = name_list[0]

greeting = " ".join(greeting_list)

The grader expects your greeting_list to use split method.

Alternatively you can do this as well.

full_name = "Diego Murray"

#name_list = (full_name).split(" ")
#greeting_list = "Hi, I'm {}".format(full_name).split()

#This is probably what you thought at the beginning.
#If you do this you don't need further code. Maybe that's why grader didn't accept yours.
greeting_list = "Hi, I'm {}".format(full_name.split(" ")[0])

#Not required.
#greeting_list[2] = name_list[0]
#greeting = " ".join(greeting_list)

I also want to add what your mistake will actually result into

#assume previous code has been written

greeting_list = "Hi, I'm {}".format(full_name).split()

Here's step by step what your line will do.

  1. "Hi, I'm Diego Murray".split()

  2. ["Hi,", "I'm", "Diego", "Murray"]

Diego Murray
Diego Murray
2,515 Points
Diego Murray
Diego Murray
2,515 Points

Gunhoo Yoon

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/python-basics/shopping-list/lists-and-strings

Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points

Thanks give me a minute