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Python Python Basics Meet Python Create a Variable

BARAK BANIN
BARAK BANIN
275 Points

I wrote: favorite_color = Blue Why does it fail?

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using_variables.py
favorite_color = Blue

1 Answer

Christopher Gunawan
Christopher Gunawan
10,754 Points

Strings need to be either inside double quotation marks or single quotation marks.

favorite_color = 'Blue'

or

favorite_color = "Blue"