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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String concatenation

John Bartholomew
John Bartholomew
226 Points
Posted by John Bartholomew
John Bartholomew
226 Points

I'm working on a strings problem and can't seem to figure out what I'm doing incorrectly.

Can't figure this out.

strings.py 
name="ryan"
subject="Treehouse loves "+"Ryan"

2 Answers

Albert G
Albert G
4,142 Points
Albert G
Albert G
4,142 Points

they want you to use a variable for the second part of the challenge so the correct solution would be 

 subject = 'Treehouse loves ' + name
Krishna Pratap Chouhan
Krishna Pratap Chouhan
15,203 Points
Krishna Pratap Chouhan
Krishna Pratap Chouhan
15,203 Points

You might find it funny but change the 

name="Ryan"

And the same code would work fine. Probably because that's how they are testing our code.

But yes they want you to use variable name rather than the value in name variable itself.