Build a Bill Splitter - Step 4

Curriculum Help
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Tell us what’s happening:

i have tried to make this work in so many ways, and looked at others issues and responses to this same issue but idk what an f-string is?

Your code so far

running_total = 0

num_of_friends = 4

appetizers = 37.89
main_courses = 57.34
desserts = 39.39
drinks = 64.21

# User Editable Region

running_total += appetizers + main_courses + desserts + drinks
print('Total bill so far: 'running_total)

# User Editable Region

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Challenge Information:

Build a Bill Splitter - Step 4

GitHub Link: freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/workshop-bill-splitter/6982684f3a25f379e195a5fc.md at main · freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp · GitHub

2

Welcome to the forum @london.a.tracy

Did you notice the message in the console?

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Happy coding

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i figured it out, i had to do

print(‘Total bill so far:’, running_total)

no space added after the colon.

aswell, my console wasnt showing anything the whole coding process it was just completely black

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please see this lesson about f-strings https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/python-v9/lecture-introduction-to-python-strings/what-are-string-concatenation-and-string-interpolation