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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Posted by Kat Vieux
Kat Vieux
424 Points

Python shopping_list Challenge confusion

I believe I'm just getting caught in the language, but is He looking for a for0 in() statement on the next step? Where Treehouse is replaced with the first item on the name list?

greeting_list.py 
full_name = ("Mary Kate Vieux")
name_list = full_name.split( )
greeting_list = ("Hi, I'm Treehouse.".split( ))

3 Answers

Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

Basically what the task is asking you to do is to replace "Treehouse" with the first word (item) of your name (which you have saved in the full_name variable).

Right now your lists look like:

full_name --> ['Mary', 'Kate', 'Vieux']

greeting_list --> ['Hi,', 'I'm', 'Treehouse']

So the task wants you to make greeting_list look like:

['Hi,', 'I'm', 'Mary']

To do this you need to replace the 3rd item of the greeting_list with the 1st item of the full_name, which is pretty straight-forward.

greeting_list[2] = name_list[0]

Hope that helps. Good luck!

PS: You don't need to wrap parenthesis around the string variables. For example full_name = ("Mary Kate Vieux") should just be full_name = "Mary Kate Vieux"

Kat Vieux
Kat Vieux
424 Points

How does one mark something as solved? blush

beven nyamande
beven nyamande
9,575 Points
beven nyamande
beven nyamande
9,575 Points 
full_name = (Beven Nyamande)
name_list = [full_name.split()]
greeting_list = ("Hi i'm {}".format(name_list[0]))
Kat Vieux
Kat Vieux
424 Points
Kat Vieux
Kat Vieux
424 Points

Thanks so much for the hasty reply. I see I'm still adding in javascript bits where they shouldn't be as well. :) Funny how simple it is when pointed out. Cheers.