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Python

Posted by Victor Curtis Jr
Victor Curtis Jr
5,268 Points

Need Help With Code Challenge Getting Name is Not Defined Error

This question is in regards to a code challenge where you need to call the hello_student function and save it in a variable called hello. So I was able to create a variable called hello and have the hello_student function saved in it. According to the videos, you can enter a name as a parameter in the function and the function will run. Well the error keeps coming up that name is not defined when I submit my code. I tried to define name by entering name = input("What is your name? ") in the body of the function and that did not work. Not sure exactly how to fix this.

def hello_student(name):
    return ("Hello {}".format(name))


hello = hello_student(name)

1 Answer

jb30
jb30
44,806 Points

If you want hello to have a string value provided by the hello_student function, you could try

hello = hello_student("Victor")

or

name = "Victor"
hello = hello_student(name)

If you have name without quotes, python will interpret that as a variable, and expect you to provide a value for it before you use it.