#🔒 Need help in an if/else code
dusky vapor
someone is already typing lol
coarse gale
!paste can you send your code, too?
dusky spireBOT
dusky vapor
coarse gale
are you defining answer before the if?
coarse gale
so like answer = input()
dusky vapor
so like `answer = input()`
where am I supposed to put that
verbal horizon
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coarse gale
so, you are getting user input, and you want to store it somewhere
you're also checking if the answer is something, but not telling python what to store in answer
dusky vapor
coarse gale
so when you do if answer == "something": you haven't told python what answer is.
verbal horizon
What the error means, if you're not defining the variable answer
coarse gale
!e
answer = "yes"
if answer == "yes":
print("yes")
else:
print("no")
So python doesn't know what answer means
dusky spireBOT
@coarse gale :white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.
yes
answer = input(Toast) ?
coarse gale
Where are you getting toast from?
verbal horizon
Nah, just add answer = to your first line at the beginning so the input gets stored inside answer
coarse gale
!d input
dusky spireBOT
verbal horizon
Nope
late bison
Your code right now is:
input("blah blah")
It should be
answer = input("blah blah"")
Please check my message above.
Make sure you are doing answer = input("What did you eat for lunch?")
verbal horizon
Two other people have shared code examples please check them
dusky vapor
Make sure you are doing `answer = input("What did you eat for lunch?")`
why should this be the very first code
late bison
why should this be the very first code
This sets the answer to whatever the user puts in.
It allows you to do your if statements after.
verbal horizon
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coarse gale
Delete the first line completely.
late bison
so the first line should be answer = input('X')
yes.
The What did you eat for lunch? line is the one that needs the answer in front.
late bison
It should be
answer = input("What did you eat for lunch?")
coarse gale
There you go.
verbal horizon
bro I suck ass at python
Nw, just gotta try
dusky vapor
if I put in toast
coarse gale
Then that's a different issue, but you solved the first one
You now defined answer, assigned something to it, and compared it.
late bison
What's the rest of your code?
dusky vapor
dusky vapor
oh shit its working
late bison
It should work, yes.
This is because you have made some crucial changes to your code.
The biggest change was the fact that you assigned the variable answer to the input.
This allows the user to type in their input and the code will be able to access the input.
late bison
answer is a variable name.
verbal horizon
because, you want to save what the user inputs inside answer
late bison
Think of it like a label on a container.
verbal horizon
= is used to put input() inside anwer
late bison
The label says answer. The container contains the input.
coarse gale
input returns what the user types. You have to store that somewhere.
late bison
Doing input() bare like that means nothing.
Usually people do it to fill lines/force the user to type stuff that isn't important.
coarse gale
alhtough using input() bare helps debug cli programs that just run through code, but that's a different beast.
dusky vapor
im learning python because im having an IT exam in 1 day
coarse gale
now remember that python is case-sensitive, so toast, Toast, and TOAST are all different. So, if the user types any variation than what you're comparing to, you'll get the else statement.
dusky vapor
now remember that python is case-sensitive, so `toast`, `Toast`, and `TOAST` are...
ye ik
coarse gale
for comparison, it's better to use .casefold() over .lower().
dusky vapor
what is casefold
late bison
what is casefold
A more aggressive version of .lower()
Basically it just forces everything to lowercase.
coarse gale
!d str.casefold
dusky spireBOT
coarse gale
!e
answer = "ToAsT"
if answer.casefold() == "toast":
print("execellent")
else:
print("idkdude")
@coarse gale :white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.
execellent
what does sep='' do
coarse gale
!e
print("this", "is", "a", "sentence", sep="++")
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this++is++a++sentence
It will seperate the objects you pass into print by whatever you define as the sep
late bison
The default is " "
dusky vapor
yeah thats just a space but
what if I put " " between words
and I dont put the sep='' at the end
coarse gale
if you don't pass sep an argument, it defaults to space. But, that's only for each object you pass.
So, a single string won't use sep, no matter what you pass it.
!e
print("This" "is" "a" "single" "string" "object", sep="++")
@coarse gale :white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.
Thisisasinglestringobject
That line concatenates to a single str() object.
When you separate each with a comma, you are sending multiple str() objects. Then sep will be applied.
slow junco
answer = str(input("what did you eat for lunch: ")) also make sure you backspace one tab so else is aligned with if
coarse gale
```answer = str(input("what did you eat for lunch: "))``` also make sure you bac...
input() always returns a string, no need to cast it to str().
slow junco
`input()` always returns a string, no need to cast it to `str()`.
yea but its cooler that way
im just jk
but its better that way
sage ember
its not better that way if it does the same thing already?
coarse gale
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dusky vapor
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slow junco
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