Question

sentence = ‘every good boy does fine’

This exercise asks to ‘Store each word in a separate variable, then print out the sentence on one line using print.’ After pondering for two hours, here’s the best that I could come up with–

2 a = 'every'
3 b = 'good'
4 c = 'boy'
5 d = 'does'
6 e = 'fine'
7 
8 together = a + b + c + d + e
9 print(together)

Is there an easier way to do this? Like

sentence = 'every good boy does fine'.split()

…then every item on that list is placed in its own variable; then from there, add all the variables together to piece back any sentence in a prescribed way(example–bcdae, or ecabd, etc.).

thanks for helping this noob!

Answer 1

Lists and other sequences can be unpacked like so:

a,b,c,d,e = 'every good boy does fine'.split()

If you add a * before the last variable (e.g. *e) then remaining elements that don’t get unpacked can be accessed in the last variable as a list.

You could then print however you want:

>>> print(a,b,c,d,e)
every good boy does fine
>>> print(b,c,d,a,e)
good boy does every fine