🔒 Help with adding conditions to if and elif statments

[fathom garnet]

Essentially i'm wondering how to add more conditions into an elif or if statment. I'm very new at this, so sorry if it's really simple.

[low grove]

@fathom garnet

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[paper quest]

Heya @fathom garnet 👋
I think you’re doing great. You just need to fix the indentation of those two ifs and then probably the indentation of the rest of the code.

[fathom garnet]

yeah i see that, but everytiime i fix it, it still errors with the same error

[paper quest]

The error being..?

[paper quest]

Thats the stuff you’ll be fixing with the indentation.

So that means that what you tried to fix the indent, wasnt the right way.

That line needs to start on the same indent as the line above it.

[fathom garnet]

so i am correct on the fact you can add an if inside an elif or no?

[paper quest]

Yes for sure you can 🙂

[fathom garnet]

see whenever i edit any code the error comes back

adding indents for example

[paper quest]

!e
x = 5
if x > 1:
if x < 10:
print("x between 1 and 10")

[low grove]

@paper quest :white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

x between 1 and 10

[paper quest]

Because its still incorrect 🙂

Ifbyou show line numbers i can guide you better but:

[fathom garnet]

this is so weird

im adjusting both indents

and it keeps having the same red line..?

[paper quest]

any line of code
if abc: # needs to start on same level as line above
    Do things # needs to be indented 4 spaces

The problem is where the if’s start.

[fathom garnet]

this looks correct yes?

[paper quest]

No

[fathom garnet]

ik the error at exit but im talking about indentation

[paper quest]

Line 38 is indented. But it shouldnt be

Line 37 is indented with the incorrect amount of spaces (although that often doesnt error anymore)

[fathom garnet]

yeah but whenever i dont indent it it will error because the variable "decision" is declared on the other if

[paper quest]

ifs dont have scope.

[paper quest]

Line 38, needs to start on the same level as line 37

[fathom garnet]

ah.

hm ok im close now only one if is erroring

[paper quest]

Good good!

[fathom garnet]

ahb yes

wait

like thus?

[paper quest]

Let me show you this message we wrote for the bot.

!indent

[low grove]

Indentation

Indentation is leading whitespace (spaces and tabs) at the beginning of a line of code. In the case of Python, they are used to determine the grouping of statements.

Spaces should be preferred over tabs. To be clear, this is in reference to the character itself, not the keys on a keyboard. Your editor/IDE should be configured to insert spaces when the TAB key is pressed. The amount of spaces should be a multiple of 4, except optionally in the case of continuation lines.

Example

def foo():
    bar = 'baz'  # indented one level
    if bar == 'baz':
        print('ham')  # indented two levels
    return bar  # indented one level

The first line is not indented. The next two lines are indented to be inside of the function definition. They will only run when the function is called. The fourth line is indented to be inside the if statement, and will only run if the if statement evaluates to True. The fifth and last line is like the 2nd and 3rd and will always run when the function is called. It effectively closes the if statement above as no more lines can be inside the if statement below that line.

Indentation is used after:
1. Compound statements (eg. if, while, for, try, with, def, class, and their counterparts)
2. Continuation lines

More Info
1. Indentation style guide
2. Tabs or Spaces?
3. Official docs on indentation

[paper quest]

Thats it!

[fathom garnet]

am i doing somthign wrong in the general function of the code?

[paper quest]

Just the decision.upper is missing parenthesis

[fathom garnet]

yeah

thast why its not working

arent these...?

parenthesis

[fathom garnet]

im confused by waht you mean in that

[paper quest]

Thise are quotes no?

()

Maybe im wrong, idk lol

Sorry I gotta run, work work

[fathom garnet]

no your right

i just had a brain fart

ok thanks for helping

lmao

[paper quest]

Happens all the time xD

[paper quest]

Yeah. They need to be at the .upper() call

[fathom garnet]

wut

in english

ohhh

ok thanks

[paper quest]

Remember calling a function / method is done with ()

[fathom garnet]

?

like this?

[paper quest]

print <- the function print
print() the call to do function print

[paper quest]

I think you had it right at the start

!e
hello = "world"
print(hello.upper())

[low grove]

@paper quest :white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

WORLD

[fathom garnet]

oh shoot

yeah

ok thanks!

[paper quest]

Hey, im back for a bit. Do you need more help on this?

[low grove]

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