Automate the boring stuff with Python: Comma Code

Question

Currently working my way through this beginners book and have completed one of the practice projects \'Comma Code\' which asks the user to construct a program which:

Answer 1

I tried this, hope this is what you are looking for :-

spam= ['apples', 'bananas', 'tofu', 'cats']

def list_thing(list):

#creating a string then splitting it as list with two items, second being last word
    new_string=', '.join(list).rsplit(',', 1)    

#Using the same method used above to recreate string by replacing the separator.

    new_string=' and'.join(new_string)
    return new_string

print(list_thing(spam))