How do I split and remove the last name from this exercise?
Please post a link to this project in a reply. It will help if we can see the original data, the narrative and the instructions.
It looks like names is a list of strings that are in the form "FIRSTNAME LASTNAME"
Look up using .split for strings to split a string into a list of strings.
link to project:
https://www.codecademy.com/projects/practice/ds-python-strings-project
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a.strip('\n ').split(' ')[0].upper()
Above, pretend that a is the name string. After cleaning we split it on the space it contains, and capture only the first element, which will be a string, then we up-case it.
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What is the name of the string? is it insurance_costs?
medical_records_clean consists of records with four strings. If the name is kept in tact (first and last) then that will be the first in the list. What I did was reduce the name be only including the first in my construction of that list.
If our record is called, x (for example), then unpacking it we get,
a, b, c, d = x
That is where I get the a from.
for x in medical_records:
a, b, c, d = x
y = []
y.append(a.strip('\n ').split(' ')[0].upper())
# ...
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The name of the string is “name”.
Your final code will look like this:
for i in range(len(names)):
name = names[i]
age = ages[i]
bmi = bmis[i]
cost = insurance_costs[i]
print(name.strip('\n ').split(' ')[0].title() + " is " + age + " year old with a BMI of " + bmi + " and an insurance cost of " + cost +"\n")
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