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Python

Nancy Melucci
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Nancy Melucci
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Posted by Nancy Melucci
Nancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 36,159 Points

Strip away tuple formatting (parens, commas) for print in Python.

For once in my life, the logic I wrote is fine. But the solution is presented with the members of the tuple not bracketed or comma'd.

So, my code prints: "The smallest number in the list is (6,) and the largest number in the list is (88,)" but I need it to go: "The smallest number in the list is 6 and the largest number in the list is 88."

is this achievable with some kind of formatting code?

thanks. So grateful for the help.

#make a list of numbers
def makealist(num):
    list = [random.randint(0, 100) for x in range(num)]
    return list


#small and large
def smallLarge(list):
    newlist = sorted(list, key=int)
    mytuple = (newlist[0], newlist[-1])
    return mytuple


#proof of life
num = int(input())
mylist = makealist(num)
printlist(mylist)
theTuple = smallLarge(mylist)
print(theTuple)
small = str(theTuple[0:1])
large = str(theTuple[1:])
print('The smallest number in the list is ' + small + ' and the largest number in the list is ' + large)

2 Answers

james south
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james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Points

you can index tuples with slice notation just like lists, so instead of making new strings with your small and large variables, just string cast a direct indexing of theTuple, like "......" + str(theTuple[0]) + "........"