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

Posted by Aidaliz Maldonado
Aidaliz Maldonado
1,006 Points

This instruction is weirdly constructed and am not sure what is asking me to do.

I wrote the following code, but they both give me wrong results: email_greeting = "{} loves {}, format(treehouse, name)" or email_greeting = treehouse + "loves" + name

Not sure why they are wrong.

3 Answers

Adam Tatusko
Adam Tatusko
16,589 Points

Try this:

email_greeting = "{} loves {}".format(treehouse, name)

or

email_greeting = treehouse + " loves " + name
Ann Cascarano
Ann Cascarano
17,191 Points
Ann Cascarano
Ann Cascarano
17,191 Points

Try ending your quotation marks before calling the format method, like this:

email_greeting = "{} loves {}".format(treehouse, name)

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

As both Ann Cascarano and adamtatusko pointed out, you're calling .format() incorrectly. Also, when doing string concatenation (adding strings together with +), you need to be sure and provide the necessary spaces inside of the strings. Python joins them exactly as is.