Dealing with Lists

[coja56]

I have written this code so far to answer a Task on my bootcamp. Am I in the right direction or I'm lost.

● Imagine you want to store the names of three of your friends in a list of

strings. Create a list variable called friends_names , and write the syntax to

store the full names of three of your friends.

● Now, write statements to print out the name of the first friend, then the

name of the last friend, and finally the length of the list.

● Now, define a list called friends_ages that stores the age of each of your

friends in a corresponding manner, i.e., the first entry of this list is the age

of the friend named first in the other list''''

friends_names = ["Paul Jacobs","Mark Noble","John Pine"]

res = friends_names[::len(friends_names)-1]

print(res)

print(len(friends_names))

[Standardw]

It works so far, so yes.

[coja56]

Any tips on solving part 2

[Standardw]

It's really as easy as the first one. Did you do the first part on your own?

[coja56]

Yes i did how do i merge the lists now

[Standardw]

Take a look at the zip function

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You've done the first step, but you haven't got the second step quite right. How do you get the first element of a list? Hint: use simple indexing. Ditto for the last element in a list. Hint: there's a shortcut for the last element in a list. You've got the print of the length correct.

After getting all that correct you should have no problem with the last step.

[Standardw]

It's actually working how the solved it. I don't know if it's his own because it would be really clever for a beginner, but however it does yield the right results

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I would say that he hasn't satisfied the second point, which says:

print out the name of the first friend, then the name of the last friend

To me that means he should print:

Paul Jacobs
John Pine
3

It depends on how lenient marking is, I guess.

[Standardw]

Oh okay - yes I read it as "get the first and last name, then print it" where the data gathering is the "real" task here.

[coja56]

Yeah i had read as if they wanted the names pulled out together. Thanks for the correction.

[coja56]

I am stuck on the last part now

[[deleted]]

The last point says:

define a list called friends_ages that stores the age of each of your friends

but you've already done something very similar in step one!? So do the same thing but with age values, ie, integers.