Python Homework - creating a new list

Question

The assignment:

Write a function called splitList(myList, option) that takes, as input, a list and an option, which is either 0 or 1. If the

Answer 1

edit

Can you show the code where you are calling the splitList method?

this was incorrect

myList [i]

is your problem, you can't have a space in there. python is VERY VERY VERY strict about syntax

since people seemed to think they should downvote me, let me explain:

by having that space, you effectively said myList (which is a list), and [i], which is a list literal with the value of 'i' at index 0....

so you are passing two variables (one actual variable and one literal) into the append method, NOT separated by a comma, which will not work.