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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String concatenation

Posted by Chesed Private
Chesed Private
Courses Plus Student 70 Points

concatenates?

what's the answer

strings.py 
name = "Michelle"
subject = ("Treehouse loves"  +  {name})
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
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Jason Anders
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1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

There are three issues:

  1. You aren't supposed to wrap variable names in curly braces {}.

  2. When you concatenate strings they are merged without any spacing added. So "Treehouse loves" + name results in "Treehouse lovesMichelle". In order to get a properly spaced string you have to add a space manually.

  3. You don't need to use parenthesis () when you assign a value.

If you fix those three issues like this:

name = "Michelle"
subject = "Treehouse loves " + name

Then your code will work.