Learn Lambda Functions by Building an Expense Tracker - Step 4

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Tell us what’s happening:

Attempting to append a dictionary to my list. Everything looks right, but the code doesn’t pass. I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong.

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def add_expense(expenses, amount, category):
    my_dict = {'amount': amount, 'category': category}
    expenses.append(my_dict)

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Learn Lambda Functions by Building an Expense Tracker - Step 4

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Welcome to the forum @jbamaker

Create a dictionary with a key 'amount' and value of the amount parameter and pass your new dictionary to the .append() call.

There are several things to fix here.

The first one is: you only need one key for this step.

Happy coding

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I figured as much. TBH, this isn’t my first attempt. I’ve tried it with 1 key/value pair and got the same result. I understand the code is read top down, so I believe that I need to create the expenses list first, create the dictionary, and then append the dictionary to the list. I’m missing something and I can’t figure it out…

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Ok, I see. I was overthinking it. I figured it out, lol. Thank you.

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hey i also stcuk at the same step could you help me

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