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Python Introducing Dictionaries Introducing Dictionaries Creating a Dictionary

Ramez Kanj
Ramez Kanj
5,616 Points
Posted by Ramez Kanj
Ramez Kanj
5,616 Points

I dont understand the error

On an empty line beneath the existing code, create a variable called topic and assign to this variable the value of the topic key in the student dictionary.

Bummer: Whoops, looks like the topic variable is assigned to the wrong value. Check that the topic key has the correct value in the student dictionary, and check that you're accessing this value correctly.

creating_dictionaries.py 
student = {'name':'Ramez', 'topic':'computer', 'python':'Dictionaries'}

topic = student['topic']

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

Apparently the challenge doesn't check task 1 very thoroughly.

The instructions for task 1 asked for a dictionary where the second pair was key: 'topic', value: 'python'. So the assignment for task 2 is getting the value "computer" but the challenge is expecting "python".

Also, this doesn't affect the result but the instructions did not ask for a third pair in the dictionary.