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

Posted by Jason Cawood
Jason Cawood
6,296 Points

Not sure what the challenge is asking in the Python Basics Stage 2 Ins & Outs Challenge task 3

I'm not quite sure what the challenge is asking to do. Challenge task 3 of 3 Finally, create a new variable named email_greeting that puts treehouse and name into "X loves Y" so X is treehouse and Y is name.

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

It wants the email_greeting variables value to be "[value of treehouse variable here] loves [value of name variable here]"

Here are some hints:

you can do this using concatenation 

     string_four = some_variable + " a string " + some_other_variable

notice that you need to be mindful of spaces before and after your strings when concatenating.

you can also use the format function

    string four = "this is a string {} using the {} format function".format(some_variable, string_other_variable)

the above code will insert the values of some_variable and some_other_variable where the {} are located. So if the values of some_variable are "first string" and "second string" the above code will output this is a string first string using the second string format function"