Make sure the string from the instruction is exactly what you are returning

Write a function called “show_excitement” where the string

“I am super excited for this course!” is returned exactly

5 times, where each sentence is separated by a single space.

Return the string with “return”.

You can only have the string once in your code.

Don’t just copy/paste it 5 times into a single variable!

    def show_excitement():
    # Your code goes here!
    for i in range(1, 6):
        print ("I am super excited for this course! ")
    return " "

print show_excitement()

How to solve this please help

Answer

Try the following:

def show_excitement():
    return ' '.join(["I am super excited for this course!"] * 5)

print(show_excitement())

# I am super excited for this course! I am super excited for this course! I am super excited for this course! I am super excited for this course! I am super excited for this course!

You were almost there.

1. You printed the sentence five times inside your function, but the instruction requires that you return a string (without printing inside the function). So use return followed by a string.

2. The correct syntax for print is print(...), not print ....

3. Putting a space between sentences is not quite clean with a for loop, because you need to take care of a trailing space (or leading space).

   For example,

   "I am super excited for this course! " * 5

   would result in

   "I am super excited for this course! ... I am super excited for this course! "

   (Note the final blank in the string.)

   Here I used join to insert spaces between five sentences. If the instructor wants you to learn for loop specifically, then you can try:

   def show_excitement():
       s = ""
       for i in range(5):
           if i > 0:
               s += ' '
           s += "I am super excited for this course!"
       return s