🔒 How can I fix this error?

[silver hedge]

i'm trying to get it to print a grid and display a point on it but im getting this error:
if currentPoint in points:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not tuple

[hallow onyx]

@silver hedge

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[silver hedge]

import string


cols = 15
rows = 15

print("Please input your point in a [()] bracket.")

points: str = input("Please input your point.")
for y in range(rows//2, -(rows//2) - 1, -1):
    for x in range(-(cols//2), cols//2 + 1, 1):
        currentPoint = (x,y)
        if currentPoint in points:
            print("X", end = "")
    
        if currentPoint == (0, 0):
            print("+", end = "")
        if x == 0:
            print ("|", end = "")
        if y == 0:
            print("-", end = "")
        else:
            print(" ", end= "")
    print()

this is my current code

[hot anchor]

what do you tihnk that if statement is doing there?

[silver hedge]

wdym?

[hot anchor]

what do you think that line is doing?

the if currentPoint in points:

[silver hedge]

it makes the x appear where the point is i think

[hot anchor]

thats what happens if the statement is true

if the if statement checks in

its supposed to happen IF currentPoint is in points

if currentPoint in points:

what are you saying currentPoint is in the code?

[silver hedge]

where the point is placed

[hot anchor]

what exactly is that variable?

what type of variable

[silver hedge]

a string

[hot anchor]

but you specified it as a tuple: currentPoint = (x,y)

[silver hedge]

oh mb

[hot anchor]

you can't check if a tuple is in a string

now what you can do

is make the currentPoint a string with the format (x,y)

and you do that by formatting string

like this

currentPoint = f"({x},{y})"```

let me know if that works

[silver hedge]

oh thank you

[silver hedge]

yes it worked

i see where i went wrong

[hot anchor]

nice

[hallow onyx]

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