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Python Python Basics Meet Python Using Input

Posted by samuel octelene
samuel octelene
1,014 Points

input and coding style challenge? i am not sure where i went wrong.

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using_input.py 
favorite_color = input("What is your favorite color? ")
favorite_color = "red"
print("The color", "favorite color", "is a great color!")

1 Answer

Viraj Deshaval
Viraj Deshaval
4,874 Points
Viraj Deshaval
Viraj Deshaval
4,874 Points

Let me tell you first how your code is behaving.

You are asking for your favorite color and storing in favourite_color and then you are overriding the favourite_color value by passing 'red'.

Lastly you are simply printing the strings with no reference to variable.

In order to display variable values you need to add variable name without quotation mark in 'print()' statement.

Let me clear your doubts step by step:

Step - 1: Create a variable and ask for your favorite color using input(). Note: input() always returns string.

favourite_color = input("What's your favourite color?  )

Step - 2: print the favourite color using print statement.

print("The color ", favourite_color, " is a great color")