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Karma Lama
849 Pointslist creation... what am i missing here?
colors = [red, green, yellow, brown , black]
colors = [red, green, yellow, brown , black]
2 Answers
Nicholas Grenwalt
46,626 PointsIn Python words are represented as strings so they must be wrapped in single (') or double (") quotes. So for each of the colors in your list, make sure that they are surrounded with quotes so that they will be correctly read as strings within your list, i.e. 'red' or "red". Either way works.
Manish Giri
16,266 PointsIt's generally a good habit to try and spend some time debugging your code, in case of errors. If there are any error messages shown, that's a good starting point.
If I run your code, I get this error - NameError: name 'red' is not defined. This should tell you what's wrong, red should be a string, with quotes -"red". Same goes for the remaining colors.
Karma Lama
849 PointsThanks.....again!
Karma Lama
849 PointsKarma Lama
849 PointsThanks for the explanation... I tried doing
colors = ["red, green , yellow, brown, black"]
now I know, I need to put quotes in every single color... thanks again!