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Python Introducing Dictionaries Introducing Dictionaries Creating a Dictionary

Mohammed Akram
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Mohammed Akram
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Posted by Mohammed Akram
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Mohammed Akram
Python Development Techdegree Student 2,633 Points

I think this question is incomplete? it's missing the students name

Did anyone else get this

creating_dictionaries.py 
student = {'name':' ','topic: 'python'}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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The instructions tell you to leave the value for "name" empty.

But the quotes are not in matched pairs here — the one that should go at the end of 'topic' (and before the colon) seems to be missing.