Build an Employee Profile Generator - Step 9

Python
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Tell us what’s happening:

Error:
You should concatenate employee_age to the end of employee_info.

Code:

first_name = “John”
last_name = “Doe”
full_name = first_name + " " + last_name

address = “123 Main Street”
address += “, Apartment 4B”

employee_age = 28

employee_info = full_name + " is "
employee_info = employee_info + employee_age

Your code so far


# User Editable Region

first_name = "John"
last_name = "Doe"
full_name = first_name + " " + last_name

address = "123 Main Street"
address += ", Apartment 4B"

employee_age = 28

employee_info = full_name + " is "
employee_info = employee_info + employee_age

# User Editable Region

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Challenge Information:

Build an Employee Profile Generator - Step 9

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Please Tell us what’s happening in your own words.

Learning to describe problems is hard, but it is an important part of learning how to code.

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I am trying to join (concatenate) the variable employee_age to the end of the string employee_info. However, employee_info is a string and employee_age is an integer (the number 28). When I run the code, Python throws a TypeError. It’s telling me it doesn’t know how to ‘add’ a number to a sentence automatically. Even though the instructions told me this error would happen, the ‘Check Your Code’ button isn’t letting me pass to the next step, where I learn how to fix it.

I’ve tried both employee_info = employee_info + employee_age and employee_info += employee_age, but I’m still stuck on this screen."

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Welcome to the forum @violin1

Here is a comparison of the original code and your code.

The code in blue is the original code, the code in red is your code.
The code in magenta is the overlap.

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You need to add the concatenation to the existing variable, do not assign to a new variable.

Happy coding

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Now try to concatenate employee_age to the end of your employee_info string.

Concatenate to the existing employee_info string.

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so like: employee_info += employee_age?

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Nope. Just concatenate the age to the end of this string:

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As you did here, concatenating last_name to the end of full_name, on the same line

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thank you! i tried your solution and it worked. I think the problem was that I did not put everything into one line.

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Thank you! This helped me understand how this challenge works.

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