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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String concatenation

Posted by Dominique Gaines
Dominique Gaines
505 Points

concatenation. What am I doing wrong?

N/a

strings.py 
name = 'dom'
subject = 'Treehouse loves'
print subject + name

2 Answers

Stephen Gheysens
Stephen Gheysens
11,935 Points
Stephen Gheysens
Stephen Gheysens
11,935 Points

Hi Dominique, my guess is that the solution is looking for "Treehouse loves dom", but without a trailing space in your second variable assignment, the output would just be "Treehouse lovesdom". Let me know if this helps!

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Well, sort of. First off, you shouldn't be printing anything.

Second, you should be concatenating string, but formatting strings :smile:

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Actually, Treehouse is asking to format the name variable into subject and not to print it :smile:

To format a string, you can do this:

'Hello there {}'.format(name)

(This is just an example, the real solution you must find for yourself) :)

If this hint doesn't help much, please ask below for more hints and I'd be happy to help :smile:

~Alex