Why did the hint mislead me?

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#1

I don’t understand this hint.

def myjoin(*args):
  new_path = args[0]
  for argument in args[1:]:
    new_path += argument
  return new_path
  
print(myjoin(path_segment_1, path_segment_2, path_segment_3))

prints:

/Home/UserCodecademy/videoscat_videos/surprised_cat.mp4

This:

def myjoin(*args):
    return join(*args)

returns:

/Home/User/Codecademy/videos/cat_videos/surprised_cat.mp4

in that regard this hint is just confusing. “Does myjoin() concatenate two strings?” led me to the += solution which is clearly not correct… Why is the hint leading you to a wrong solution?

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#2

because its a hint, not a solution.

this is not the code from the code from the hint:

def myjoin(*args):
  new_path = args[0]
  for argument in args[1:]:
    new_path += argument
  return new_path
  
print(myjoin(path_segment_1, path_segment_2, path_segment_3))

this is the hint:

def myjoin(*args):
  joined_string = args[0]
  for arg in args[1:]:
    # what goes here?
  return joined_string

we still have to do what goes here? comment, including file separators. matthatters forgot to include the file separators (/). He is on the right path, and close, butt not entirely there yet.