🔒 Why does my thing keep showing invalid syntax?

[vernal herald]

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[neon flume]

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[vernal herald]

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[silent flame]

Is my code not included?

adventure3c = input("You find the source of smoke and find a tribe of cannibals! Do you approach them or hide to the left? (approach/hide): ")
if adventure3c.lower() == "approach":
print("You approached the tribe of cannibals. The cannibals captured and killed you. You failed to find the Alchemist and failed to cure your dog.")
print()
ending = "ENDING 1, Failed once, get up again"
print(ending)
exit()
elif adventure3c.lower() == "hide":
print("You hide to the left.")
adventure4c = input("You see a small hut in the distance from your hiding spot. But then you spot a rusted steel blade on the ground. Do you go to the hut or attack the cannibals? (hut/attack): ")
if adventure4c.lower() == "attack":

Error code:

File "<exec>", line 114
elif adventure3c.lower() == "hide":
^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[pliant galleon]

What the user meant above was to put your code inside backticks (`) so that your message looks like this and is easier to read

print("Hi")

[pliant galleon]

And I think your problem is that you have not given the proper indentation for the statements in the if block

[silent flame]

So what should I try

[pliant galleon]

Try giving one tab space for all statements inside your if block:

if <some condition>:
  <statement 1>
  <statement 2>
  etc...

[silent flame]

ok

thanks

[pliant galleon]

np 🎉

[neon flume]

Because print() isn't indented, that basically says "the previous if has ended". That means that when the elif is reached, there is no if for it to match to, which is illegal.

So ya, like they mentioned, you need to indent the lines so they're inside the if.

[silent flame]

ok

It worked so thanks everyone

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