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Justine Cuevas
385 Pointsstring formating
I am havin difficulty with this string. I may be over thinking this again. Please help!
name = "justine" subject = "Treehouse loves " + name del subject subject = "Treehouse loves " + "{}" print(subject.format(name))
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! I feel like you might need to review the .format method. It seems like it's all getting a bit jumbled up at this point. But here is what they're looking for:
name = "justine"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}".format(name)
So we make our name variable again and assign a string to it (in this case "justine"). Then we make another variable named subject. Now here comes the interesting part. When we put those curly braces inside the string we're using them as placeholders. Then after the quotes we call the format method and pass it a variable. This is our way of telling Python to put the value of that variable in that spot.
So if we had this:
x = 9
valueX = "The value of x is: {}".format(x)
... our valueX would have a string stored in it that looks like this "The value of x is: 9". Hope this helps!
Neil Archambault
1,838 Pointsname = 'justine' subject = 'Treehouse loves {}).format(name)