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Python Functions, Packing, and Unpacking Getting Info In and Out of Functions Functions with Arguments and Returns

Abigail Solomon
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Abigail Solomon
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Stumped on how to return the value for this function. It doesn't seem like I'm allowed to use formatted strings.

So I tried a bunch of different approaches for this challenge and none of them seem to work. This is a little different from the example functions we're doing in the videos because it involves strings instead of integers. I tried using formatted strings to return a printed statement of the string "Hello" with the name written in the parameter, but that only results in an error. I also tried to assign a variable to the combined string of Hello and the student name and that also leads to the same error. This exercise doesn't seem to like when I use the + operator to join "Hello" and the name variable either.

Any help? I thought this was going to be more straight forward than it is.

creating_functions.py 
def hello_student(name): 
    return Hello
Abigail Solomon
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Abigail Solomon
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Abigail Solomon
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Solved this one. It turns out I was overthinking and just had to put "Hello " + name after return on the second line. The answer is this: def hello_student(name): return "Hello " + name

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Rohald van Merode
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Hi Abigail Solomon 👋

In the snippet you shared you're trying to return a variable with the name Hello instead of a string "Hello". You'll also want to make sure to add the name to the returned value.

You can either do this by string concatenation like this: 

"Hello " + name

Or use a formatted string: 

f"Hello {name}"

Hope this helps! 😄