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Dharmesh Nayee
1,090 Pointshow do i save the returned value?
i tried
hello = return "Hello" + name
however this did not work
def hello_student (name):
return "Hello " + name
hello_student(Krishna)
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsYou're close, but:
- you need to assign the variable "hello" from your function
- the argument needs to be enclosed in quotes
hello = hello_student("Krishna")
anthonybednarek
1,466 PointsThis is what the challenge is asking:
Write a function called hello_student. This function should receive one argument, name. This function should return one value, the string 'Hello ' followed by the value of the name parameter.
In theory, this should be all that is needed for the solution:
def hello_student(name): return 'Hello' , name
or
def hello_student(name): return 'Hello' name
Neither work, so there must be something that they've sort of left out.
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsNeither of those quite work in theory. "return 'Hello', name" would return a tuple instead of a string, and "return 'Hello' name" is missing the concatenation operator "+". But the correct function for task 1 is seen in the second example above.
What "did not work" in that example was the call after the function, added for task 2.