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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Posted by chey pettitt
chey pettitt
657 Points

stuck on a simple task

Create a variable named greeting_list that's the string "Hi, I'm Treehouse" split on the spaces.

i think its greeting_list = "hi, im treehouse" greeting_list.split(" ")

not to sure

greeting_list.py 
full_name = "chey pettitt"
name_list = full_name.split(" ")

2 Answers

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points
Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Chey,

You're almost there but the challenges can get quite specific so you'll need to follow the casing and punctuation, e.g.:

greeting_list = "Hi, I'm Treehouse".split(" ")

EDIT: Sorry, misread your question slightly. The next stage will require the following:

greeting_list[2] = name_list[0]

Treehouse is item 2 in the list (with Hi being 0).

Your first name will be item 0 in name_list.

-Rich

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Chey,

Just updated my answer above (see the edit).

-Rich

Blaise Gratton
Blaise Gratton
30,213 Points
Blaise Gratton
Blaise Gratton
30,213 Points

This should work just fine - be sure you only have one space, or if nothing else, it could be an internal processing error on the Treehouse side of things. Also, just to be sure, you're using "chey pettitt", not "hi, I'm treehouse"?

chey pettitt
chey pettitt
657 Points

hey Rich im nearlly there i just need to make a variable named greeting where you join greeting_list back into a string, separated by spaces. You should end up with "Hi, I'm <your first name>" as the value of greeting.