[FIXED] Why I'm getting this kind of output?

Issue

I run this code on my desktop and and I enter watermelon and code run ok but it split watermelon letter by letter

fruits = ['apple','pine','grape','mango','orange']
fruits[1:3] = input('Enter a fruit:')
print(fruits)

Output:

Enter a fruit: watermelon 
['apple','w','a','t','e','r','m','e','l','o','n','mango',orange']

Expected output:

['apple','watermelon','mango','orange']

Solution

Since you're doing slice assignment, the source will be treated as a sequence. The slice [1:3] will be replaced by each element of the source sequence separately.

When a string is used as a sequence, each character is a separate element, so it gets split up and inserted into the list.

If you want to replace the slice with the whole string, wrap it in a list.

fruits[1:3] = [input('Enter a fruit:')]

Answered By - Barmar

Answer Checked By - Robin (PHPFixing Admin)