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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String Formatting

Oliver Guevarra
Oliver Guevarra
918 Points
Posted by Oliver Guevarra
Oliver Guevarra
918 Points

String Formatting Help

Having trouble with the string formatting objective.

I've entered this code,

name = "My Name" subject = "Treehouse loves {}".format(name)

When I check my work its telling me the code is wrong.

1 Answer

Sean Manners
Sean Manners
14,816 Points
Sean Manners
Sean Manners
14,816 Points

Hi there!

Your code is actually perfect. The only thing you'll need to adjust, if I'm right that your code is exactly as you've put it above, is where you define the subject and the name. You can't do both on the same line, so you'd have to make it:

name = "My Name"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}".format(name)
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Actually, he didn't_put it on the same line. It's just the Treehouse community posts automatically deletes newlines, so you need to use two newlines to tell the output to actually put a newline.

Like this. Also, in my post box at this moment when I'm typing this, I actually put one newline after the "Like this" message but this newline will be deleted.