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Python Challenge Solution

Jareth Vasquez
Jareth Vasquez
1,744 Points
Posted by Jareth Vasquez
Jareth Vasquez
1,744 Points

i cant understand why this is breaking, please help

name = input("What's your name? ")

# TODO: Ask the user by name if they understand Python while loops
understanding = input("Hey {}, do you understand while loops?\n(Enter yes/no)   ".format(name)
# TODO: Write a while statement that checks if the user doesn't understand while loops
while understanding.lower() != 'yes':
# TODO: Since the user doesn't understand while loops, let's explain them.
    print("while loops let me say this over and over again untill you say yes.")                        
# TODO: Ask the user again, by name, if they understand while loops.
    understanding = input("do you get it now?   ")

# TODO: Outside the while loop, congratulate the user for understanding while loops
 print("great job {}, glad we got that handled")

it keeps kicking back a syntax error on the while line can someone please point this out? thanks in advance!

EDIT: thank you for the help, simple thing to miss really was ticking me of trying to figure it out.

Kurobe Kuro^T_T^
Kurobe Kuro^T_T^
5,369 Points

HELLO Jareth Vasquez is this line understanding = input("Hey {}, do you understand while loops?\n(Enter yes/no) ".format(name)

your missing a ending paremtesis since your are making is to ask for a name you did every thing very good you only closed the where the variable is it should be

understanding = input("Hey {}, do you understand while loops?\n(Enter yes/no) ".format(name)) ^

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,968 Points

You are missing a closing parenthesis at the end of this line:

understanding = input("Hey {}, do you understand while loops?\n(Enter yes/no)   ".format(name))

and your final print statement needs to be outdented so it lines up with while