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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Justin Kinney
Justin Kinney
445 Points
Posted by Justin Kinney
Justin Kinney
445 Points

What am I doing wrong on list challenge

help?

greeting_list.py 
full_name = ("Justin Kinney")
name_list = list(full_name)
Ron Fisher
Ron Fisher
5,752 Points

I believe what you are trying to do is to break your full_name into 2 items, first_name and last_name. The list function will break every item in the string into an element in the list so you get each letter as it's own element in the list.

If you want to have 2 items in that list ['Justin', 'Kinney'] then check out the full_name.split() function. By default it will split on white space however an additional parameter will allow it to split by whatever character you want to split on. Be aware that whatever you split on, by default will be removed from the returned list.

David Bouchare
David Bouchare
9,224 Points
David Bouchare
David Bouchare
9,224 Points

+1 with what Ron said above.

Additionally, you do not need the parenthesis. full_name = "Justin Kinney" works just fine without them.