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Aaron Lawrence
2,954 PointsI don't really understand the question.
I ran this in the work space and it worked fine, but I'm not sure what they are looking for.
name = "Aaron"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}"
subject.format(name)
3 Answers
Russell Sawyer
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 15,705 PointsHi Aaron,
Workspaces and the code challenges work a little different. Your code is correct but the challenge wants to see it in a certain format.
name = "Aaron"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}".format(name)
Aaron Lawrence
2,954 PointsIs there an advantage to the way they wanted it vs what I wrote?
Russell Sawyer
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 15,705 PointsAdvantage? not really. But lets take a look at the code Challenge question.
OK, so now use .format() on the string "Treehouse loves {}" to put your name into the placeholder. Assign this to the variable subject again.
The challenge wants you to use .format() on the string "Treehouse loves {}" with your name in the placeholder and assign the entire string to the variable subject. Had you done.
name = "Aaron"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}"
subject = subject.format(name)
Then that would have probably passed the challenge. But
subject = "Treehouse loves {}".format(name)
is just cleaner.
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