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Shea Taylor
Courses Plus Student 664 PointsPython: How do you use a string to create a list by splitting on the spaces? (this quiz Q makes no since to me).
The task at hand asked: Create a variable named greeting_list that uses the string "Hi, I'm Treehouse" to create a list by splitting on the spaces.
I'm not sure what this question is asking me to do. Is anyone able to clarify?
full_name = ("Shea Taylor")
name_list = full_name.split()
greeting_list = ("Hi, I'm Treehouse")
greeting_list.split()
1 Answer
Clayton Perszyk
Treehouse Moderator 48,723 PointsSplit will take the string it's being called on and return it as a list; so, full_name.split() returns ["Shea", "Taylor"], which is a two item list. greeting_list.split() will return a three item list, ["Hi,", "I,m", "Treehouse"]. If you call split directly on the string, "Hi, I'm Treehouse", it will return a list and assign it to the greeting_list variable.
Shea Taylor
Courses Plus Student 664 PointsShea Taylor
Courses Plus Student 664 PointsThank you for the speedy answer, Clayton! Your clarification helped me track down my mistake – I had a misplaced space in the code that kept throwing it back as incorrect. Very frustrating. All is good in the world again.
Cheers!!