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Python

Posted by Stivan Radev
Stivan Radev
1,475 Points

Long break from Python - Forgot some of the stuff

So I'm trying to run this code

display = "I like {}!"
display.format("candy")
print(display)

and the obvious answer should be, "I like candy!", but no, for some reason It is printing this out instead "I like {}!". Why is that?

1 Answer

Viraj Deshaval
Viraj Deshaval
4,874 Points

It's displaying "I like {}" because {} is a placeholder and it should be filled with something.

.format() is used to fill out the placeholders so in your code you did correctly but you need to assign it to some variable because .format() do not change variable values. See below. 

display = display.format("candy")
print(display)
Stivan Radev
Stivan Radev
1,475 Points

Ooooh I see, thank you so much !!!