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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String concatenation

Posted by John Gilmer
John Gilmer
Courses Plus Student 357 Points

What Am I doing wrong?

I cannot figure this out, It looks good to me

strings.py 
name = "John Gilmer"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}".format(name)
(subject.format(name))
Jesse Schoonveld
Jesse Schoonveld
2,943 Points

Ian Hagerman You should answer questions by adding an answer down below instead of commenting. It makes it harder to see wich questions have already been answered or not.

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
16,600 Points

Jesse Schoonveld thanks, didn't notice that down there.

2 Answers

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
16,600 Points

This challenge wants you to use the + operator to assemble the string and not .format

name = "John Gilmer"
subject = "Treehouse loves " + name
neoty888
neoty888
23,973 Points
neoty888
neoty888
23,973 Points

You can also do this:

name = "John Gilmer"
subject = "Treehouse loves {} "

print(subject.format(name))

Output:

Treehouse loves John Gilmer