containment

There are two issues with the code:

1. The else statement needs to be on the same indentation level (horizontal spacing) as the if statement it is attached to. Correct indentation is essential when coding in Python.

2. Your if/else statement has to be placed below the store_open and store_hours variable declarations. You can't reference a variable before it is created.

If you fix those two issues like this:

time = 15

store_open = None
store_hours = [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18]

if time in store_hours:
    store_open=True
else:
    store_open=False

Then your code will work.

Hi, Jothum!

There's a couple of things you'll want to correct: 1) make sure your "else" key word is on the correct indent (in the code above, it's too far over to the right). Unlike some other languages, Python uses indent levels to know where one block of code ends and another begins, etc. 2) place your if-else statement below the time, store_open and store_hours variables to make sure Python knows what these variables mean when it gets to them in your if statement.

time = 15

store_open = None
store_hours = [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18]

# "else" is on correct indent
# entire if-else statement is below variable assignment
if time in store_hours:
    store_open = True
else:
    store_open = False

Hope this helps! D.