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Python Python Basics (Retired) Ins & Outs String Concatenation

Posted by Abdulaziz Alahmadi
Abdulaziz Alahmadi
2,623 Points

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

i tried this code

name = input("What is your name? ")

if name == "aziz": print(name + "is Amazing !!") else: print(name + "is not as Amazing")

but it gives me this error

File "lumperjack.py", line 5
else:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

1 Answer

Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
30,003 Points
Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
30,003 Points

Hello! Your code is almost correct. I think what's happening is that your indentation is incorrect which will cause python to throw you an error. If you format your code like this it should work!

name = input("What is your name? ")

if name == "aziz":
  print(name + "is Amazing !!") 
else: 
  print(name + "is not as Amazing")

Note that you may want to add a space after the name in the output. One way of doing this would be something like this:

name = input("What is your name? ")

if name == "aziz":
  print(name + " " + "is Amazing !!") 
else: 
  print(name + " " + "is not as Amazing")
Abdulaziz Alahmadi
Abdulaziz Alahmadi
2,623 Points

Thanks very much for your help ;)