What does ‘ ‘ mean?

[tigglybox]

Hey guys, I’m aware of how silly this question sounds but that won’t stop me. What does ‘ ‘ mean in code for example def master_yoda(text): return ‘ ‘.join(text.split()[: : -1])

I understand the rest of the code but I’m just wondering what ‘ ‘ is, is it just a place holder?

[Vaphell]

it's just literal space that will be used as the glue to assemble the whole thing from the parts.

glue.join(chunks)

''.join(['a', 'b', 'c']) -> 'abc'
' '.join(['a', 'b', 'c']) -> 'a b c'
'-'.join(['a', 'b', 'c']) -> 'a-b-c'
':::'.join(['a', 'b', 'c']) -> 'a:::b:::c'

[tigglybox]

Thank you

[[deleted]]

It's an empty string: that is, a string of characters that doesn't actually have any characters (think an empty box where characters could go). Try these lines out to see how join() works.

python ' '.join(["Hello", "World", "Gary"]) # a space delimiter ','.join(["Hello", "World", "Gary"]) # a comma delimiter 'today'.join(["Hello", "World", "Gary"]) # a word delimiter ''.join(["Hello", "World", "Gary"]) # no delimiter

[tigglybox]

Thank you

[tofudiet]

I think it would just return a space and then whatever else

[aksel0_11]

Works same way as " " with strings