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

Posted by Michael Ahern
Michael Ahern
398 Points

what is a string

i dont understand the question

name.py 
name = "what is your name?" 

if name == "michael":
  print("{} is a boss" .format(name))
else:
  print("{} is not a boss" .format(name))

treehouse = "what is "
if treehouse == "tree, house":
  print(" {} house" .format(treehouse))
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

I edited your post. Tone it down on the language. This isn't the right community for that.

1 Answer

Drew Butcher
Drew Butcher
33,160 Points
Drew Butcher
Drew Butcher
33,160 Points

I believe in the first line you want 

name = input("what is your name? " )

that way the when the program runs the user will be ask there name and it will be stored in the name variable.

In your if condition you don't want a space between the string and the function format... in other words it should look more like this:

if name == "michael":
  print("{} is a boss".format(name))
else:
  print("{} is not a boss".format(name))

The above code will print out 'michael is a boss' if the user inputs michael; otherwise, your output will be the input from the user with 'is not a boss'.

In the last statement, again you don't want a space between the string " {} house" and .format(treehouse); in other words it should look like:

treehouse = "what is "
if treehouse == "tree, house":
  print(" {} house".format(treehouse))

However this statement will not print out anything because the variable treehouse is assigned the value "what is" which is not equal to the value "tree, house".