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Python Python Basics (Retired) Ins & Outs Ins & Outs

Posted by Charles Rotenberg
Charles Rotenberg
736 Points

How do you create a variable using strings?

It does not explain how to do this in the video before this set of tasks.

name.py 
name = "Adam"
treehouse =

1 Answer

Tommy Bregar
Tommy Bregar
10,847 Points
Tommy Bregar
Tommy Bregar
10,847 Points

Hi Charles,

The first line of your code is a variable declaration for 'name' which contains the string 'Adam'. So to assign a string to the 'treehouse' variable, you would simply enter a string of characters contained inside quotes to the right of the equal sign like this:

treehouse = "Some string value"

So now treehouse contains the string "Some string value"

Hope this helps, you can read a bit about Python variables here

Charles Rotenberg
Charles Rotenberg
736 Points

Thanks!