append to list number above and below

[newuser1096]

hello. I really need help with this assignment.
the assignment is this:
splitAround(num s, pivot), where nums is an arbitrary list of numbers, and pivot is an arbitrary integer.

splitAround should return a dictionary, with two keys - "above" and "below". "below" should represent a list of values from nums, that are lesser than pivot, and "above" should represent a list values that are greater than pivot.

For example:
splitAround([5, 4, 10, 3], 4) => {"below": [3], "above": [5, 10]}

I started writing something along the lines of
y = {"above":[], "below":[]}

def splitAround(num bers):
y = []
for x in numbers:
if x > p:
return ["above"]
if x < p:
return ["below"]

[Luuk]

I'm not a python programmer meself but, I stored your code in a file name test.py:

python.exe c:\temp\test.py
  File "c:\temp\test.py", line 4
    y = []
    ^
IndentationError: expected an indented block

H'm this is a thing you should/could have have detected before posting here.

If you do something like this:

a = [1,2,3]
b = [4,5,6]
c = [a,b]
print(c)

This returns: "[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]"

So, the first line(s) of your code should look like:

above = []
below = []
y = [above, below]

When printing y after this it returns: "[[], []]"
which seems to be more like you want it.

[Luuk]

and PLEASE, there is a toolbar above this section where you type your text..... It also has a '[CODE/]'-tag....

I wonder why someone has invented that ….. 😊