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Python Introducing Dictionaries Introducing Dictionaries Creating a Dictionary

Paul C
Paul C
2,668 Points
Posted by Paul C
Paul C
2,668 Points

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. Assigning value of a dict key to a new variable.

"On an empty line beneath the existing code, create a variable called topic and assign to this variable the value of the topic key in the student dictionary. "

This is my answer:

student = {'name': 'Paul', 'topic': 'python'}
topic = student['topic']

First line was correct in having us make the dictionary from part one of this challenge. Am I misreading the question here?

3 Answers

Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
19,652 Points
Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
19,652 Points

I had the same issue, the topic needs to be 'Python' with a capital P to pass the second challenge for some reason, your code is fine.

Paul C
Paul C
2,668 Points
Paul C
Paul C
2,668 Points

Ahh I see. Must not have been indexed by Google yet because I did search for it! Thanks for the help Josh!

Håvard Hytten
Håvard Hytten
6,239 Points
Håvard Hytten
Håvard Hytten
6,239 Points

My code looked alot like yours and I had some trouble with this challenge aswell. My issue with this challenge was that i couldnt have apostrophe's surrounding topic in the brackets. Instead you need to use quotations marks. I wrote this code which passed:

student = {'name':'Spencer', 'topic':'python'} topic = student["topic"]

Michael McGill
Michael McGill
2,085 Points
Michael McGill
Michael McGill
2,085 Points

as of September 11 2019, in this exercise, you no longer need python spelt with a capital 'P' as before. I read this thread when I was struggling with it and, changed my python to Python because I remembered the same thing happened on a previous challenge exercise. That was before I had figured out the correct code. But by the time my code was correct, no matter what I did, it wouldn't pass me. I was sure my code was correct. Well when I changed it back to lower case 'p' I passed it. Someone needs to delete those posts so they don't keep tripping people up.