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kevinkev
777 Pointshow do you reassing a variable to an existing variable?
I've been trying different methods but I still haven't succeded
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}."
display_menu = ", ".join(sundaes)
menu = .format(display_menu)
2 Answers
andren
28,558 PointsYou simply reference the existing variable by name. For your code that would look like this:
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}."
display_menu = ", ".join(sundaes)
menu = menu.format(display_menu)
Since Python completes everything on the right of the = operator before it assigns it you don't need to worry about the fact that you are referencing a variable on the same line that you are changing it's value.
kevinkev
777 PointsWow... okay, now I get it. Thanks andre, really appreciate it thank you for taking your time to answer my question. :)