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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String Formatting

Greg Isaacson
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Greg Isaacson
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Posted by Greg Isaacson
Greg Isaacson
Courses Plus Student 702 Points

I dont understand the question

Hi guys!

I dont understand what they want the subject to be??

They want me to put my name in the {} of "treehouse loves".

What they want me to do with subject??? They refer to it as "this" in the title???

strings.py 
name="Greg"
subject=
"Treehouse loves {}".format(name)

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

this refers to:

use .format() on the string "Treehouse loves {}" to put your name into the placeholder

In other words they want subject to be set equal to the formatted string. You can accomplish this by simply moving the code from your last line onto the second line like this:

name = "Greg"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}".format(name)