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Python Python Basics (2015) Python for Beginners Create a variable

what is wrong variable assigning. name = "Anand"

name = Anand print name

variable.py
var name = "Anand"
value = 4

print name
print value

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

:point_right: Have you also been studying JavaScript?

I wondered that because there's no "var" in Python. So assigning name would simply be like this:

name = "Anand"

And that's all this task asks for (no values, no printing). However, for future use, in Python print is a function, so you would enclose what you are printing in parentheses (like: "print(name)"). But never do anything in a challenge that the challenge doesn't ask for, it can cause your answer to not pass.

Thanks