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Python Introducing Dictionaries Introducing Dictionaries Creating a Dictionary

Posted by Barbara Vega
Barbara Vega
1,410 Points

What am I doing wrong?

Key and value pairs seem to be coded correctly. What am I doing wrong?

creating_dictionaries.py 
student {'name': '' , 'topic' : 'python'}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

Your dictionary keys and values are fine.

You just forgot the assignment operator ("=") to assign the dictionary to the variable "student".