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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types Use .split() and .join()

Posted by Andrew Fitzpatrick
Andrew Fitzpatrick
3,013 Points

split and join

im trumped

banana.py 
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white".split(;)
sundaes = available.split(;)

1 Answer

Jon Mirow
Jon Mirow
9,852 Points

Hi there!

You're close!

You don't need to do anything to the available declaration on line 1 - at the moment if you call split on the string you'll store in available in line 1 and then again on line 2 you'll get an AttributeError, because the split on line 1 returned a list, so when you try split again on line 2, attribute is a list and they don't have a .split() method.

The trick here is that by default split() will break on all whitespace, to get it to split on some other character, we need to pass it a string to break on. Here that string is ";", so split(";") will work

Hope it helps :)