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Louigi Richardson
Courses Plus Student 3,448 Pointsadd more items to your list??
why is this answer not working?
colors = "red"
colg = "green"
colb = "blue"
colr = "red"
colbl = "black"
coly = "yellow"
colp = "pink"
listo1 =[]
listo1.append(colg)
listo1.append(colb)
listo1.append(colr)
listo1.append(colbl)
listo1.append(coly)
listo1.append(colp)
listo1.append(colors)
2 Answers

bryonlarrance
16,414 PointsThe challenge is asking " Let's practice making a list. Make a new variable named colors. Assign it to a list of at least 5 items. They should be colors but I won't mark you off for that." Something like this will get it to pass:
colors = ['blue', 'green', 'red', 'yellow', 'orange']

Gyorgy Andorka
13,811 PointsHi! colors
should be the name of the list itself. Moreover, you don't have to add the items piece by piece, you can create a list like this: list_name = [item1, item2, item3, ...]