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Python Introducing Dictionaries Introducing Dictionaries Creating a Dictionary

Ava Jones
Ava Jones
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Posted by Ava Jones
Ava Jones
10,679 Points

What am I doing wrong

I have no idea what is wrong, please help

creating_dictionaries.py 
student = {'topic': 'python'}

3 Answers

Shem Ogweno
Shem Ogweno
15,393 Points

Here is one way of doing it!

#Task 1 of 2
student = {
    'name': 2,
    'topic': 'python'
}
# Task 2 of 2
topic = student['topic']
Ava Jones
Ava Jones
10,679 Points
Ava Jones
Ava Jones
10,679 Points

Thank you! It helped !

Shem Ogweno
Shem Ogweno
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Shem Ogweno
Shem Ogweno
15,393 Points

There is nothing wrong with what you are doing! The question wants you to have two key-value but you have only given one

1) key: 'name', value: 2,

2) key: 'topic', value: 'python'.

Ava Jones
Ava Jones
10,679 Points
Ava Jones
Ava Jones
10,679 Points

Thank you so much for helping

Asher Orr
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Asher Orr
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Asher Orr
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Asher Orr
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Hi Ava!

The challenge says to include both key:value pairs in the dictionary.

You added the second key:value pair (key: 'topic', value: 'python') correctly. You just need to add the first one:

key: 'name', value: ''

Like this: 

student = {key:value, 'topic':'python'}
Ava Jones
Ava Jones
10,679 Points
Ava Jones
Ava Jones
10,679 Points

Thank you for helping me again!

Ava Jones
Ava Jones
10,679 Points
Ava Jones
Ava Jones
10,679 Points

Hold on I still got an error, it said that key is not defined