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Python Python Basics Meet Python Create a Variable

Aleksandra Ivanova
Aleksandra Ivanova
279 Points
Posted by Aleksandra Ivanova
Aleksandra Ivanova
279 Points

Where to use quotation marks?

I do understand they are needed inside parenthesis when they are an argument, per say, of some function. But if I just need to write a line of a text, where I am using variable, what should be in the quatation marks "" ?

using_variables.py 
favorite_color = "gray"
"The color" favorite_color "is my favorite!"

1 Answer

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

The quotes are in the right places; but to output a message, the whole thing should be passed as the argument to a "print()" function.

Also, the strings and variable name should be separated either by commas (to make them individual arguments) or by plus signs ("+", to concatenate them into a single string).