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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String concatenation

Posted by Joshua John
Joshua John
397 Points

Why does it say task One is no longer valid?

What am i doing wrong?

strings.py 
name= ("Joshua")
subject= ("Treehouse loves" + name")

2 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hi Joshua,

That error pretty much always means that you have introduced a significant syntax error in the current task that breaks the code checker on the previous task.

Here, for some reason you have parenthesis surrounding your values. When you assign values to variables, they do not take parenthesis as they are not methods. I'm not sure why task one passed you with the above code snippet. There cannot be parenthesis.

name = "Jason"

For the second task, you are close, but you have an extra quotation mark after the variable, and the parenthesis need to again be removed.

Hope this helps.

Keep Coding! :) :dizzy:

Joshua John
Joshua John
397 Points

Thank You!

Antonio De Rose
Antonio De Rose
20,884 Points
Antonio De Rose
Antonio De Rose
20,884 Points 
name= ("Joshua") #could you please check, is this how to assign a variable, do you need paranthesis
subject= ("Treehouse loves" + name") #make sure about the extra white space after "loves"