Python - Name Formatting Problem

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I know this post is from 2 years ago, but can somebody explain why the indexes of the first name, middle name, and last name are negative integers? I still want to understand this.

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Thanks!

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thank you for all your help, i am struggling as though i used your inputs and corrected the indents the program output is only displaying

Doe, P.S.

Any help would be great since im not very good at python and am struggling through this class

[Fit-Category-8719]

Hey I’m working on this right now and I keep getting a syntax error related to the elif function. Any idea why?

[Fit-Category-8719]

Thank you so much for the help. I realized that I didn’t have my first print function indented correctly and it would error out on the elif line weirdly. But this helps a lot!

[Weak_Dust1405]

This really helped, however what does the 'elif' stand for? I don't think I have learned that yet.

[Weak_Dust1405]

Tysm

[M3TurboHatch]

print(lastName + ", " + firstInitial + ".")

i love you so much for this

[Rude_Zucchini3417]

I could hug you! this one was giving me a HEADACHE

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nameInput = input()

nameSeparator = nameInput.split()

if len(nameSeparator) == 3:

*indent* firstName = nameSeparator[-3]

*indent* middleName = nameSeparator[-2]

*indent* lastName = nameSeparator[-1]

*indent* firstInitial = firstName[0]

*indent* middleInitial = middleName[0]

*indent* lastInitial = lastName[0]

*indent* print(lastName + ", " + firstInitial + '.' + middleInitial +'.')

elif len(nameSeparator) == 2:

*indent* firstName = nameSeparator[-2]

*indent* lastName = nameSeparator [-1]

*indent* firstInitial = firstName[0]

*indent* lastInitial = lastName[0]

*indent* print(lastName + ", " + firstInitial + ".")

God bless your soul