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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types List Creation

Posted by Jozef Balaz
Jozef Balaz
775 Points

lists, whats wrong?

can someone help ?

lists.py 
colors = [yellow, green, black, purple, marron]

1 Answer

Krahr Chaudhury
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Krahr Chaudhury
Courses Plus Student 139 Points
Krahr Chaudhury
Krahr Chaudhury
Courses Plus Student 139 Points

Because the contents of your list are not enclosed in quotation marks, they are being treated as variables, but they are unassigned! If you want them to be strings, then enclose each word in quotation marks (unless you want them to be variables, then you'd have to define each of them individually).