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Python Python Basics (Retired) Things That Count Things That Count

Posted by Felix Johansson
Felix Johansson
3,341 Points

Python is hard! help

This is hard for me..

QUESTION:

Finally, create a new variable named summary that adds the string version of days into "I am {} days old!".

days_alive.py 
age = 18
days = age * 52 * 7
summary = print("I am {} days old"(days))

1 Answer

Robert Richey
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 Points

Hi Felix,

You're doing great!

For this last task in the challenge, we don't need to print anything - we just need the variable summary to hold a string with our variable concatenated or use a formatted string.

Let's look at string concatenation first.

age = 18
days = age * 52 * 7

# python doesn't like numbers concatenated with strings,
# so we have to explicitly cast numbers into strings with str(number)
summary = "I am " + str(days) + " days old"

Finally, here's a version using String Formatting

age = 18
days = age * 52 * 7
summary = "I am {} days old".format(days)

Your code was really close to this - it was just missing the .format after the string and the challenge doesn't want us to print it, just assign to summary.

Hope this helps,

Cheers

Felix Johansson
Felix Johansson
3,341 Points

Thanks!