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Python Python Basics Meet Python Using Input

Posted by Luz Alegria
Luz Alegria
194 Points

In using_input.py it won't let me move on and keeps switching from the color mauve to red

using_input.py 
favorite_color=input("what is your favorite color?")
favorite_color='Mauve'
print('The color',favorite_color,'is a great color!')

7 Answers

jayda hendrickson
jayda hendrickson
3,413 Points

Try not actually setting the color to mauve or red, I think it was just an example. So, just run your first and last line of code.

Anesu Antonatte Chibanda
Anesu Antonatte Chibanda
2,238 Points

I did exactly that but it wont execute

Luz Alegria
Luz Alegria
194 Points
Luz Alegria
Luz Alegria
194 Points

It worked thanks!

jayda hendrickson
jayda hendrickson
3,413 Points
jayda hendrickson
jayda hendrickson
3,413 Points

No problem!!

Luz Alegria
Luz Alegria
194 Points
Luz Alegria
Luz Alegria
194 Points

Hmm it worked for me.Can I see your code?

Anesu Antonatte Chibanda
Anesu Antonatte Chibanda
2,238 Points

favorite_color = input("what is your favorite color?" ) print("The color ,favorite_color is a great color!")

i cant seem to upload a screenshot i have not any of those options

Luz Alegria
Luz Alegria
194 Points
Luz Alegria
Luz Alegria
194 Points

Have you tried doing the code but with just one quotation marks instead of 2 so it should look like input('what is your favorite color?') print('the color'favorite_color,'is a great color!')

Anesu Antonatte Chibanda
Anesu Antonatte Chibanda
2,238 Points

It finally worked ! THANK YOU SOO MUCH !!

Luz Alegria
Luz Alegria
194 Points
Luz Alegria
Luz Alegria
194 Points

Glad to help!

Zackary Overman
Zackary Overman
212 Points
Zackary Overman
Zackary Overman
212 Points

When I enter "Red" as my favorite color variable it says, "'Mauve' not found in 'The color Red is a great color!' : Make sure you are printing out 'The color Mauve is a great color!' (Mauve is my favorite that I inputted)".

Then when I switch the variable to "Mauve" it says "Hmm...I answered the prompt with 'Red' but that's not what was in the variable favorite_color"

Am I losing my mind??

Zackary Overman
Zackary Overman
212 Points

I figured out that if I made a line that said print('The color', favorite_color, 'is a great color!') with the variable favorite_color = 'Red' Then a fourth line that said print('The color', 'Mauve', is a great color!') It worked! just dupe it by doing both lines with the variable as red and one without the variable, but just 'Mauve'