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

Posted by Colton Bryce Hamish Greer
Colton Bryce Hamish Greer
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Now, create a variable named treehouse by combining two strings, "Tree" and "house".

I'm not understanding this at all. I rewatched the videos multiple times

1 Answer

Matthew Carr
Matthew Carr
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Matthew Carr
Matthew Carr
11,220 Points

your variable will be treehouse, so your line of code will begin with treehouse =

What follows the equal sign? You need to use string concatenation, this works with the + operator in python.

For a variable named something, made out of the words "some" and "thing" you would add the two strings together using the + sign.

For instance try the following code at a python prompt

print("some" + "thing")