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Ben Muresan
265 PointsReplacing an item in a list
The question is asking me to replace "Treehouse" in greeting_list with the first item in name_list. I got the right answer by reading a forum question but I don't understand it.
What does the -1 part mean? The video doesn't actually go over that. It only talks about .append, which would not replace anything, only add to the end of the list from what I understand. Thanks!
full_name = "Ben Muresan"
name_list = full_name.split (" ")
hi = "Hi, I'm Treehouse"
greeting_list = hi.split (" ")
greeting_list[len(greeting_list) - 1] = name_list [0]
1 Answer
Thomas Kirk
5,246 PointsHi,
The code is taking the length of greeting_list, which is 3 [Hi, I'm, Treehouse], and then subtracting 1 from it to get the index number of the last item in the list (i.e. the index number of Treehouse). Because index numbers start at 0, a list of 3 items will be indexed from [0] then [1] then [2].
So the code finds the greeting_list index number that is one less than the number of items in the list, or 3 minus 1.
I hope that makes sense.
I believe the code would pass if it simply read:
greeting_list[2] = name_list [0]