Greet (stdout)

A reminder from the very first lesson of this course: return and print are different. This problem specifically checks what your function prints, not what it returns.

greet(name)

Print (don't return) "Hello, {name}!".

Examples

greet("Ada")     // prints: Hello, Ada!
greet("world")   // prints: Hello, world!

Walkthrough

Thinking it through

def greet(name):
    print(f"Hello, {name}!")

Every other problem in this course has checked your function's return value — but real programs print things to the screen constantly (status messages, prompts, results for a human to read), and that's worth testing directly too.

This problem's tests capture whatever your code prints while greet runs, and compare that captured output to the expected text — your function's return value is ignored entirely here (in fact, greet doesn't even need a return statement; falling off the end of a function without one just returns None, which is fine).

If you instead wrote return f"Hello, {name}!", the tests would see empty output (nothing was printed) and fail — a good reminder of exactly the return-vs-print distinction from the very first lesson of this course, now showing up in a form where getting it backwards actually breaks the test.

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