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

Posted by David Taylor
David Taylor
1,695 Points

What is wrong with this code?

I am having trouble with this can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

banana.py 
available = "banana split;hot fudge;cherry;malted;black and white"
sundaes = available.split(';')
display_menu = sundaes.join(", ")
menu = "Our available flavors are: {}".format('display_menu')

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

You have "join" applied to a list and are passing it a string as an argument.

But "join" is a string method that takes a list as an argument.

display_menu = ", ".join(sundaes)

Also, never put quotes around a variable name. That makes it a string literal instead of a reference to the variable's value.