[FIXED] How do i print a list of names (from user input) in the format of "First Initial. Last Name"? (python 3)

Issue

An example would be of the output I am looking for is:

Enter list of names:

Tony Stark, Steve Rodgers, Wade Wilson

Output

T. Stark
S. Rodgers
W. Wilson

I would also appreciate if you could explain how the code for this works because I am new to coding and want to understand what I'm doing rather than just copying.

Solution

First of all you need to read the names from the user:

names_str = input("please enter names separated by commas: ")

Now, the first step to separate them to have a list of "FirstName LastName"s. You'd better first replace all ", " with "," to avoid unnecessary spaces.

first_lasts = names_str.replace(", ", ",").split(",")

Next, you want to print the First Initial. + Last name.

for first_last in first_lasts:
    first_name, last_name = first_last.split(" ")
    print(f"{first_name[0]}. {last_name}")

There are many more advanced and shorter ways to do it but since you mentioned you're still learning I think this one is a good starting point :)

result:

T. Stark
S. Rodgers
W. Wilson

Answered By - Mohammad