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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String Formatting

Aaron Schokman
PLUS
Aaron Schokman
Courses Plus Student 520 Points
Posted by Aaron Schokman
Aaron Schokman
Courses Plus Student 520 Points

Bit confused why this isn't correct....

Just a bit confused why this isn't correct/what the correct answer is.

Thanks in advance :)

strings.py 
name = "Aaron"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}"
subject.format(name)

1 Answer

Katie Wood
Katie Wood
19,141 Points
Katie Wood
Katie Wood
19,141 Points

Hi there,

You're really close - basically, the issue is that this line: 

subject.format(name)

doesn't actually save the formatted value to the 'subject' variable, which is what the challenge is checking. To do that, it would have to be:

name = "Aaron"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}"
subject = subject.format(name)

The challenge doesn't like this, though - just thought I'd mention it because that kind of thing will work in the python shell, for example. The challenge is looking for you to do it on the same line, which would look like this:

name = "Aaron"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}".format(name)

Hope this helps!