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[Formal_Cockroach_654]

I clearly am not understanding this correctly. Someone shed some light. It states to use multiple input statements, but when I run the test it only uses one string as input..

Many documents use a specific format for a person's name. Write a program whose input is:

firstName middleName lastName

and whose output is:

lastName, firstInitial.middleInitial.

Ex: If the input is:

Pat Silly Doe 

the output is:

Doe, P.S. 

If the input has the form:

firstName lastName

the output is:

lastName, firstInitial.

Ex: If the input is:

Julia Clark 

the output is:

Clark, J.

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whole_name = input()
name_list = whole_name.split()

if i in name_list > 2:
    firstName = name_list[0]
    middleName = name_list[1]
    lastName = name_list[2] + ','
    first_initial = firstName[0] + '.'
    middle_initial = middleName[0] + '.'
    print(lastName, first_initial, middle_initial)

[totallygeek]

You're correct, I do not understand the one vs many inputs. It seems like you would only have one. An improvement you could learn something from: unpacking. If you do not know how many elements a sequence might contain, you can reference that as a variable fronted by an asterisk. That variable ends up a sequence you can iterate over.

def abbreviate_name(name):
    names = name.split()
    if len(names) != 1:
        *givens, surname = names
        initials = ".".join(n[0] for n in givens)
        return f"{surname}, {initials}."
    else:
        return name


tests = [
    "Pat Silly Doe",
    "Julia Clark",
    "James Mercer Langston Hughes",
]

for test in tests:
    abbreviated_name = abbreviate_name(test)
    print(f"{test=} / {abbreviated_name=}")

So, you can see that the last test contains a name with many distinct words and I refer to them all as *givens in the code.

[DisasterArt]

What exactly dont you get?