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Courses Plus Student 521 PointsString Help
name = "david" subject="Treehouse loves {}" subject.format(name)
Why is name not being inserted into placeholder ?
name = "david"
subject="Treehouse loves {}"
subject.format(name)
Steven Parker
231,275 PointsThat's right. Your original final line did create the correctly formatted string, but did not store it anywhere.
David Srinivasan
Courses Plus Student 521 PointsDavid Srinivasan
Courses Plus Student 521 Pointsapparently the answer was : name = "david" subject="Treehouse loves {}" .format (name)