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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Nick Stevenson
Nick Stevenson
2,191 Points
Posted by Nick Stevenson
Nick Stevenson
2,191 Points

The 'recheck work' result is telling me the code is broken when it is not. Output.html shows that my code is correct.

am I going mad?

greeting_list.py 
full_name = "Ben Kingsley"
name_list = full_name.split()
greeting_list = "Hi, I'm a treehouse".split()
greeting_list[3] = name_list[0]

2 Answers

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

While your code is correctly written, it is not exactly what the challenge is asking for. In Step 2, you are asked to make greeting_list from the string "Hi, I'm Treehouse". Notice the lack of the word "a" in the string. The capitalization of Treehouse does not appear to affect the challenge.

Removing the "a", and correcting the index referring to treehouse, your last two statements now look like:

greeting_list = "Hi, I'm treehouse".split()
greeting_list[2] = name_list[0]

FWIW, I made the exact mistake my first time through that challenge.

Nick Stevenson
Nick Stevenson
2,191 Points
Nick Stevenson
Nick Stevenson
2,191 Points

Thanks Chris, the tool needs me to do exactly what was asked - makes sense.

Cheers, N