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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types String Formatting

Posted by Makan Fofana
Makan Fofana
Courses Plus Student 1,773 Points

My .format program is not running. I have spent a good amount of time trying to figure it out.

I am currently working on printing using .format

strings.py 
name = "Makan"
subject = "Treehouse loves {}"

print(subject.format(name))

6 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey Thierry,

The reason Task 2 is not passing is because of 2 things. First, the challenge did not ask for a print statement.

Second the .format needs to format the string and placeholder assigned to subject. Currently it is trying to format a variable.

So, you're on the right track, you just need to move the format to the string itself

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

Hope that helps. :)

Zach Swift
Zach Swift
17,984 Points
Zach Swift
Zach Swift
17,984 Points

I pasted your code in as is and it passed.

Makan Fofana
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Makan Fofana
Courses Plus Student 1,773 Points
Makan Fofana
Makan Fofana
Courses Plus Student 1,773 Points

Yeah it still not going through for me

Zach Swift
Zach Swift
17,984 Points
Zach Swift
Zach Swift
17,984 Points

Are you getting an error message?

Zach Swift
Zach Swift
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Zach Swift
Zach Swift
17,984 Points

Sorry for the confusion! I didn't notice there were 2 tasks on that one.

Makan Fofana
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Makan Fofana
Courses Plus Student 1,773 Points
Makan Fofana
Makan Fofana
Courses Plus Student 1,773 Points

Thank you both for your help.

Carlos José
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Carlos José
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Carlos José
Carlos José
Courses Plus Student 12,431 Points

In still don't have much experience in Python but I got curious and observed that in all cases I found on the web no example has tried to call the method from a variable with a string, instead they show the method called directly from a string literal.

like : "Treehouse loves {0}".format(name);

Maybe you can try :

print("Treehouse loves {0}".format(name));