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Python Introducing Dictionaries Introducing Dictionaries Creating a Dictionary

Efaz Khan
Efaz Khan
5,194 Points
Posted by Efaz Khan
Efaz Khan
5,194 Points

Must be a bug in the question.

I am pretty sure my code is correct. Can someone please check?

Thank you

creating_dictionaries.py 
student = {'name':"", "topic": "python"}

topic = student["topic"]
Josh Stephens
Josh Stephens
13,529 Points

No you are not wrong there is most certainly a bug. 

In [1]: student = {'name': 'Josh Stephens', 'topic': 'python'}
   ...: topic = student['topic']

In [2]: topic
Out[2]: 'python'

2 Answers

Josh Stephens
Josh Stephens
13,529 Points

Ok playing around I was able to pass it. Change the value of topic in the student dictionary to be Python with a capital p. Probably the unit tests for this is not doing a case insensitive comparison on the assertion and thus it fails. Assuming that is how they are checking the results

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

This was previously discovered by another student, but it probably wouldn't hurt to send another bug report in to the Support folks.