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Posted by camberden
camberden
2,729 Points

Team.py Challenge Question: Printing the Index of Iterables in a For Loop

Hello Treehouse Community!

I am currently tackling the Team.py challenge and am encountering some difficulty in printing the index of the iterables within my list, for instance, Player 1, Player 2 etc.

I included a variable called "counter" to serve as a number that increases by one for each iterable, which then would be printed. This repeatedly fails regardless of my formulation. In the bottom, my line forcounter += 1 raises a SyntaxError for invalid syntax, oddly.

How may I resolve this? I heard of an enumerate function but I think there is a better way to do this that I may be overseeing.

players = []

answer = input('Do you want to add players to the list? (Yes/No)   ').title()

while answer == 'Yes'.title():
  player_add = input('What is the name of the player?   ')
  players.append(player_add)
  answer = input('Do you want to add players to the list? (Yes/No)   ').title()
  if answer == 'No'.title():
    print('There are {} members on the team!'.format(len(players)))
    counter = 1
    for player in players:
      print('Player {}: {}'.format(counter, player) 
      counter += 1
    keeper = str(input('Please select one player to be the goalkeeper!   '))
    if keeper in players:
      print('You selected {} as goal keeper! Happy playing!'.format(keeper))
neilkimmelfield2
neilkimmelfield2
1,158 Points

I think the only problem is that you're missing a right parenthesis at the end of line 13.

1 Answer

neilkimmelfield2
neilkimmelfield2
1,158 Points
neilkimmelfield2
neilkimmelfield2
1,158 Points

I think the only problem is that you're missing a right parenthesis at the end of line 13.

camberden
camberden
2,729 Points

Wow, that was it!

Much appreciated for the help, I'm surprised that I missed that. This comes to show that a SyntaxError would display the line of code below the one with inadequate parentheses, it seems. I'll keep this in mind for sure.