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Reza Nadjmabadi
632 PointsFinally, create a new variable named summary that adds the string version of days into "I am {} days old!".
I have passed the last two steps and I'm on the final step. Here is my code:
age = 25
days = (age * 7 * 52)
print (days)
summary = 365 * days
print (" I am {} days old!".format(summary) )
The error that comes out stating that I did not format it to string. So, I'm a little bit confused am I not understanding something here?
age = 25
days = (age * 7 * 52)
print (days)
summary = 365 * days
print (" I am {} days old!".format(summary) )
5 Answers
Chris Shaw
26,676 PointsHi Reza,
The reason this challenge isn't passing is because you have a two print statements which don't need to be there and your summary variable contains an integer instead of the formatted string, the code you want to have is as follows.
age = 25
days = age * 52 * 7
summary = 'I am {} days old!'.format(days)
Aayush Bhandari, the format method accepts both integers and strings along with other types of objects as well, you don't need to convert it as Python will infer it's type and associate it with the correct placeholder.
Happy coding!
Aayush Bhandari
11,224 PointsHi Reza, the .format takes in string as arguments. The summary variable is not string, its an integer. So instead of just putting in summary inside format convert it to string first, i.e. .format(str(summary))
Reza Nadjmabadi
632 Pointsthe exact error is: Your summary variable should be a string!
Reza Nadjmabadi
632 Pointsnvm I figured it out turns out that all i had to do was use summary = str(days)
print (" I am {} days old!".format(summary) )
Reza Nadjmabadi
632 Pointsoh thank you Aayush, I didn't see your post earlier, but the information you provided why the answer is what it is helps me understand a lot better. Thank you very much sir.