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Python Python Basics (Retired) Shopping List Lists and Strings

Michael Moore
Michael Moore
13,564 Points
Posted by Michael Moore
Michael Moore
13,564 Points

What does it mean don't create name_list manually?

Create a variable named full_name that holds your full name. Make another variable named name_list that holds your full name in list form, split on the spaces. Don't create name_list manually, use split!

greeting_list.py 
full_name = 'michael moore'
name_list = list().split

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hi Michael,

You're pretty close on the code, it's just a bit mixed up on the second line. When the challenge says "don't create name_list manually, it just means it doesn't want you to cheat and do name_list = "m i c h a e l ...", but rather use split().

And you are close. You are assigning the new variable name_list like you should, but you need to call split() on the full-name variable, and then tell it to split using spaces (" ").

Your second line will look like this

name_list = full_name.split(" ")

Hope that helps. Keep Coding! :)