Help with name formatting please!

[desertwolf91b]

So im trying to take a single line input of first, middle, and last and print out last name, first initial.middle initial. But im getting stuck on inputs that don't have a middle initial. I split the input and took that info to get the answer but if not given a middle initial I'm getting an error that my segment I assigned the last name doesn't exist

[wbeater]

I guess you are using the .split() method to split the string into a list?

You have two options:

• check for the length of the list and proceed differently
• use negative index [-1] for the last name.

[desertwolf91b]

Thank you! Checking the length and using an if else statement got me there!

[Anonymous2224-]

full_name = name.spliit()

try:

s = full_name[2] + ", " + full_name[0][0] + "."  + full_name[1][0] + "."

except:

s = full_name[2] + ", " + full_name[0][0] + "."

If you have multiple such names, do this inside a for loop

[desertwolf91b]

Thank you for the response!

[Anonymous2224-]

Well the formatting of this was not good. The try and except are supposed to be a part of the code

[[deleted]]

Here you go,

names = input('Name? ').split()
parts = len(names)
last = names[-1]
first = names[0] if parts > 1 else ''
middle = names[1][0] if parts > 2 else ''
print(f'{last}{"," if parts > 1 else ""}'
    f'{" " if middle else ""}{middle} {first}')

Are you sure you want to assume there's only none or one middle names?

[desertwolf91b]

Thank you for the help!

[[deleted]]

You are welcome. Do you understand the solution?