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john herron
2,485 PointsIm on the .format() code challenge on python and Im completely lost on what to do
name = "john" subject = "treehouse loves {}" .format("john")
can anyone point out what I'm doing wrong?
name = "john"
subject = "treehouse loves {}"
subject.format("john")
2 Answers
Andreas cormack
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,011 PointsHi John so for this challenge, the marker is expecting a variable name to be passed to the format method. The way you have written the code, it makes the variable 'name' redundant. When i say redundant i mean you assigned your name to the variable 'name' but then passed a static string to the format method.
so if you pass the variable name to the format method the code would pass.
name = "john"
subject = "treehouse loves {}"
subject.format(name)
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 PointsHey John,
You're on the right track. There are just a couple of things.
When you use the
format()method, it has to be used directly on the string being formatted. So, you can't use a second declaration of the variable.You will want to pass in the variable
nameinto the format method and not a hard coded stringFinally, and this one is just because the code checker for the challenges are very picky and specific, "Treehouse loves..." needs a capital "T".
name = "john"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}".format(name)
Hope this helps. Keep Coding! :)