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

Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points
Posted by Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points

What step am I missing?

I need to make a variable name treehouse and combine two strings for the word tree and house. Not sure what step I am missing.

name.py 
name = "Drew"
name = "tree house"
if name == "Drew":
  print("{} Drew is cool! ".format(name))
else:
if name == "tree house"
  print("{} treehouse".format(name, name))

5 Answers

Jose Coto
Jose Coto
11,466 Points

Hi,

Great to know I was of help. As with everything, is about patience and trial and error!

José

Jose Coto
Jose Coto
11,466 Points
Jose Coto
Jose Coto
11,466 Points

Hi,

The problem that I see in your code is that you are using the variable name twice. This makes that the second line of your code overrides the first. A hint that I hope it helps:

1) assgn different variable names for "tree" and house. E.g: nature = "tree" ho home = "house". 2) Then you just can concatenate strings with +. nature + home = "treehouse".

Hope this helps!

Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points
Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points

I see what you are saying! So the format of my code is correct, I just need to assign the different variables, is that correct?

Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points
Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points

After retying using the answer from above, I am told task one is no longer passing. I think I am mixing up two different codes, but not 100% sure. I am very news to this an eager to learn as much as I can! :)

name = "Drew" nature = "Tree" home = "house"

if name == "Drew": print(name + "is cool!") else: print( nature + "Tree" + home "house")

Jose Coto
Jose Coto
11,466 Points
Jose Coto
Jose Coto
11,466 Points

Could you remind me of the objective of this task. It seems to me you are really close, but I am not quite sure about what exactly is that you need to do.

Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points
Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points

Hey Jose, sure no problem. I actually just figured it out with your help and slowing down. I had to create a veritable name treehouse and then combine the two strings together to say "tree" and "house"

This is what my new code looked like and passed!

name = "Drew" nature = "Tree" home = "house" treehouse = nature + home if name == "Drew": print("{} Drew is cool! ".format(name)) else: print("{} Treehouse ",format(treehouse))

Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points
Drew Bissonnette
Drew Bissonnette
309 Points

Alright, it seems this time is a little more tricky for me.

Finally, create a new variable named email_greeting that puts the treehouse variable and the name variable into the sentence "X loves Y" but with treehouse for X and name for Y. Don't forget your spacing!

My code:

1 name = "Drew"

2 nature = "Tree"

3 home = "house"

4 treehouse = nature + home

5 email_greeting = treehouse + name

6 if name == "Drew":

7 print("{} is cool! ".format(name))

8 else:

9 print("{} Treehouse ".format(treehouse))

10 else:

11 print("{} loves ".format(email_greeting))

Get error task 1 no longer passing