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Python

Posted by Arvin L
Arvin L
123 Points

name = input ("whats your name? ") 

name = input ("whats your name? ")
if name == "sub":
  print(name + " is an ax and he/she's OK!")
  else:
    print(name + " sleeps all night and " + name + " works all day and eats chicken!")
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Arvin,

What was your question?

Arvin L
Arvin L
123 Points

oh the error is not displayed here but got this synthax error and couldn't run the name.py

1 Answer

Jason Anello
PLUS
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

You have your else statement indented but it should be lined up with the corresponding if statement.

Your else statement and the subsequent print should be un-indented 1 level

Arvin L
Arvin L
123 Points

Thanks! I had no idea that indentation can interfere with running a function.

With that being said, it still gives me the same error!

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Yes, in python indentation is very important because that's what decides which lines of code belong to which blocks.

Can you post the error you're getting as well as the current code you're trying? Also, what part of the course are you on right now?

Arvin L
Arvin L
123 Points 
>>> python zech.py                                                                               
  File "<stdin>", line 1                                                                         
    python zech.py                                                                               
              ^                                                                                  
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The code:

name = input ("whats your name? ")
if name == "sub":
  print(name + " is a ashiy and he/she's OK!")
else:
print(name + " sleeps all night and " + name + " works all day and eats chicken!")

Thanks for the reply!

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Your print statement that's part of the else should be indented one level.

It looks like you're trying to run your python command from within the python environment.

>>> python zech.py

You should be at your normal command prompt when entering python zech.py

Exit out of the python shell first if you're in that then you can go ahead and run your python command to run your file.

It looks like you ran python first from the command line giving you the prompt

>>>

Then you tried to run the python command again.

Arvin L
Arvin L
123 Points

That makes so much sense now that you said it! it runs smoothly

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Glad you got it working!