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Casper Zaar
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 11,088 PointsOn an empty line beneath the existing code, create a variable called topic and assign to this variable the value of the
What am I doing wrong here? :-/
student = {'name':'Casper', 'topic':'Python'}
topic = student['topic']
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,236 PointsYour task 2 code is good, but for task 1 the challenge asked you to create the value '' (an empty string) to go with the 'name' key, and the value 'python' (with a lower-case "p") to go with the "topic" key.
Apparently it did not notice that you assigned different values until checking task 2.
Casper Zaar
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 11,088 PointsThanks Steven!
I just thought that I should enter my own name and it worked ;-) Thanks for clearing that up. Now I can move on.
silasholt
4,181 PointsHey just to let you know the Values are case sensitive!! I had {'name': 'Silas' , 'topic': 'Python'} this code would not work when trying to get 'topic' value I changed the values to lowercase and it worked! Just Thought I would let y'all know
Karen Gold
2,941 PointsThank you Silas! Lowercase value worked!
Casper Zaar
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 11,088 PointsCasper Zaar
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 11,088 Points"On an empty line beneath the existing code, create a variable called topic and assign to this variable the value of the topic key in the student dictionary."
There was the whole task.