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Python Python Basics (Retired) Ins & Outs Ins & Outs

Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points
Posted by Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points

Missing step for task 3 Python Basics

Finally, create a new variable named email_greeting that puts the treehouse variable and the name variable into the sentence "X loves Y" but with treehouse for X and name for Y. Don't forget your spacing!

If I take out lines 10 & 11, all I get is "bummer try again" When I try to add anything after line 5, I get "Task 1 is no longer passing.

I've tried many combos for the last 5hrs, haha! I am sure it's something super simple.

Any ideas?

name.py 
name = "Drew"
nature = "Tree"
home = "house"
treehouse = nature + home
email_greeting = treehouse + name
if name == "Drew":
  print("{}   is cool!  ".format(name))
else:
  print("{}   Treehouse ".format(treehouse))
else:
  print("{}   loves ".format(email_greeting))

1 Answer

Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,532 Points
Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,532 Points

For this challenge you won't need any conditional statements. If you did, they follow the structure:

if conditional:
    #...
elif conditional:
    #...
elif conditional:
    #...
else:
    #...

You can have 0 or more elifs and an optional else.

For email_greeting you can do either of the methods you were trying, just with slightly different formatting:

email_greeting = "{} loves {}".format(treehouse, name)

or

email_greeting = treehouse + " loves " + name

The challenge expects the string exactly as requested so you can run into problems if you add extra stuff.

Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points
Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points

Thanks, I was able to finally get it using the 2nd option, I kept forgetting to space the " ".