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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String concatenation

Andrés Priego
Andrés Priego
652 Points
Posted by Andrés Priego
Andrés Priego
652 Points

Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing

tried to concatenate subject="Treehouse loves" + name where name is a prev. declared variable i.e name="Artie"

strings.py 
name="Andres"
a="Treehouse Loves"
subject=a+name

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! Your code would work and you're very close here, but there are a couple of problems mostly related to the instructions of the challenge. So I'm going to give some hints:

  • The capitalization is incorrect on the word "Loves". See the instructions
  • The current string stored in subject would be "Treehouse LovesAndres" instead of "Treehouse loves Andres". Correct your spacing.

I think you can get it with these hints, but let me know if you're still stuck! :sparkles:

Andrés Priego
Andrés Priego
652 Points
Andrés Priego
Andrés Priego
652 Points

Thank you Jennifer, it totally worked!

-A