Need help to fix the error

Course Q&A AI Python for Beginners
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available_copies = 4 ### DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS CODE LINE

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### START CODE HERE ###

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# 1. Reduce the number of "available_copies" by a value of 1

available_copies = 3

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 Print the message, confirming the checkout. Use multi-line f-string

# In your print statment, use "book_title" you implemented in exercise 1

# Use "available_copies" you calculated above

print (f"""one copy of {book_title} is checked out.There are now {available_copies} copies avaialble""")

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### END CODE HERE ###

  Cell In [1], line 8
    Print the message, confirming the checkout. Use multi-line f-string
    ^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
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It looks like you must have accidentally deleted the "# " at the beginning of that line that makes it a comment. That means you’ve turned a sentence of English into python code, which (as we see) does not end well. :weary_cat:

Here’s what that cell looks like in a clean version of this notebook:

available_copies = 4 ### DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS CODE LINE

### START CODE HERE ###

# 1. Reduce the number of "available_copies" by a value of 1
available_copies = # Add your code here

# 2. Print the message, confirming the checkout. Use multi-line f-string
# In your print statment, use "book_title" you implemented in exercise 1
# Use "available_copies" you calculated above
print(f"""
# Add your code here
""")

### END CODE HERE ###

Please compare that to what you are seeing in your notebook.

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I think “reduce the value” means to use subtraction - not to use a hard-coded value.

4

Yes, I was worried about that also, but I tried it both ways and either way passes the local test case and the final grader.

I also found at least one case in which you can actually fail the local test_your_code logic, but still pass the grader. Questions have been asked on the Mentor Forum. :nerd_face: