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def build_profile(first, last, **user_info):
    """Build a dictionary containing everything we know about a user."""
    profile = {}
    profile['first_name'] = first
    profile['last_name'] = last
    for key, value in user_info.items():
        profile[key] = value
    return profile

user_profile = build_profile('albert', 'einstein',
                             location = 'princeton',
                             field = 'physics')

print(user_profile)

In the user_profile variable I am not allowed (by Python) to write 'location':'princeton' and 'field': 'physics'. That's the structure of key-value-pairs, isn't it? Why can't I then use it, but am submitted by the IDLE to use =, and remove single-quotation marks which are in dictionaries used for assigning values.

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