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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String Formatting

scott droddy
scott droddy
964 Points
Posted by scott droddy
scott droddy
964 Points

.format

I do not know what is wrong with this:

name = "scott" subject = "Treehouse loves {}" print(subject.format("name"))

strings.py 
name = "scott"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}"
print(subject.format("name"))

1 Answer

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

There are two issues:

The first issue is that you wrap the "name" variable in quotes in your format call, when you reference variable names you do not wrap them in quotes. Quotes are only used to declare strings, by wrapping the name variable reference in quote marks you pass the actual text "name" to the format call, rather than the text found within the name variable.

The second issue is that the challenge asks you to store the formatted string in the subject variable, it does not ask you to print the formatted string.

Fixing those two issues results in this code:

name = "scott"
# This formats the string and stores it in the subject variable
subject = "Treehouse loves {}".format(name)

Which will allow you to complete the challenge.