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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String Formatting

Posted by David Srinivasan
David Srinivasan
Courses Plus Student 521 Points

String Help

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

Why is name not being inserted into placeholder ?

strings.py 
name = "david"
subject="Treehouse loves {}"
subject.format(name)
David Srinivasan
David Srinivasan
Courses Plus Student 521 Points

apparently the answer was : name = "david" subject="Treehouse loves {}" .format (name)

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

That's right. Your original final line did create the correctly formatted string, but did not store it anywhere.