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ilya A
3,802 Pointsconfused about a quiz question (dict basics)
set the key color to the value 'red'.
my_car[ _____________ ] = ______________
in the first blank I put: "lambo", and in the second blank I put: {"red"}
I got an error: Bummer! Unfortunately, that answer is incorrect.
what am I doing wrong?
2 Answers
andren
28,558 PointsThe first blank should contain the key you are modifying/creating and the second blank should contain the value.
That means that you are creating a key called "lambo" and setting the value to a dictionary containing the string "red", which is not really what the quiz asks for.
The key should simply be "color" and the value just the string "red" like this:
my_car["color"] = "red"
gotchimusprime
4,883 PointsResurrecting this as I did the above:
my_car["color"] = "red"
and it returned an incorrect answer. Apparently the editor only accepts single quotes?
my_car['color'] = 'red'
Really destroyed my brain for a sec.