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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String concatenation

Posted by intak baek
intak baek
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I don't understand string

string???

strings.py 
name = "Deja vu"
subject = "Treehouse loves"
"name_" + "subject"

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Ok, first off let me clarify the "Deja vu" thing. It's just an expression that English speakers have taken from French that means roughly "seen/done this before".

Secondly, string is just a fancy way of saying a series of characters. In your code "Deja vu" is a string and so is "Treehouse loves". We denote a string by setting them inside quotation marks.

Here's the code it's looking for:

name = "Jane"
subject = "Treehouse loves " + name

Here I've set the name to Jane. Now I've made a new variable named subject which will contain the the value "Treehouse loves Jane". We are using string concatenation here. It takes "Treehouse loves " and "Jane" and smushes them together. That whole thing is now assigned to the variable subject.

Hope that helps! Happy coding!