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Python Python Basics (Retired) Ins & Outs Ins & Outs

Posted by cameron Silver
cameron Silver
285 Points

Creating a variable

... why in the video Kenneth imputes If name == "Kenneth": but in the challenge task 1 of 3 when i input If name == "Cameron": it says the == marks are wrong. please fix this because this is unacceptable. If i am doing the exact same thing as what i was teached and it doesn't work, its not my my fault its the challenge task. FIX IT.

1 Answer

Justin Horner
STAFF
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Justin Horner
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hello Cameron,

The double == is an equality operator. Assignments in Python are always a single =.

So it is correct to check if a variable is equal to a certain value, say to check if a variable named "key" is equal to the string "C#", it would be:

if key == "C#":
    ...
else:
    ...

Assigning a value to a variable would be:

key = "C#";

I hope that helps.