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

Posted by Noel Guerra
Noel Guerra
940 Points

using split

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

attempting to split available at the semi-colon and rename it sundaes as a list. Where am i going wrong?

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

1 Answer

Ted Dunn
Ted Dunn
43,783 Points
Ted Dunn
Ted Dunn
43,783 Points

You should assign the result of the statement in the second line of your code ( available.split(';') ) to the variable sundaes.

sundaes = available.split(';')