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21 Nov 2023

Posted on:

18 Nov 2023

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Resolved: What's the point of split?

I was wondering what's the point of using .split(',')?

We can just use the next code :


(age,years_of_school) = "30","17"
print(age)
print(years_of_school)


We get the sames result...

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Posted on:

21 Nov 2023

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Hi Rajaonarivony!
Thanks for reaching out.


Using .split(',') is useful when you have a single string containing multiple items separated by commas, and you want to split this string into separate elements. For example, if you have a string like "30,17", you can use "30,17".split(',') to split it into two separate strings "30" and "17".

In your example:


(age, years_of_school) = "30", "17"

You are already using two separate strings "30" and "17", so there's no need to split them. You have to use .split(',') when you start with a single string that needs to be divided into separate parts.


Hope this helps.
Best,
Tsvetelin

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