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[wraith citrus]

im trying to get my code to respond in such a way thta if i did not enter any name, it will tell me that i did not enter any name

[undone cairn]

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[tepid galleon]

you do not need to do

if {name} == True:

you can do

if name == True:

or just

if name:

[wraith citrus]

oh ok thanks

[tepid galleon]

np

[wraith citrus]

like this?

sorry im still tryna get used to the double == and if/else/elif

[tepid galleon]

yep it is right, but you would need to also put something after that if, because if the condition is true, the program won't know what to do next

[wraith citrus]

oh aight

[tawdry brook]

makes more sense to me but there is no right and wrong only opinions

[wraith citrus]

i though it had some error with the code

[wraith citrus]

i want to maake it so that if there is a name entered, it will respond with another text

[tepid galleon]

well yeah, the only error is that it does not know what to do after, also the way you described your intention probably you want to check for if name != True

[gritty temple]

im assuming you want a while loop, so it checks as if true/else block to print nothing entered... however a name persay would be hard to verify if its a real name and not letters making any garbage or word.

[wraith citrus]

if name: then how would it know theres a name and if its there or not

[wraith citrus]

my goal here is just to make a simple system to check whether the user ( me ) has entered anything whether it be giberish or a real one

so yeah

[somber crag]

You need to compare the input to another string

if name == "Horizon"

[gritty temple]

then a while loop, if true break out, if false continue

[somber crag]

this is assuming they want it to ask repeatedly

[tepid galleon]

you can do if !name:

[gritty temple]

true, and number of retries could be set... its upto OP to define.. but guess im assuming he would want it.

[somber crag]

They want to know if the name is a specific name

I don't think they're concerned with empty strings right now

[wraith citrus]

ok so ive tried it, and whether i put a name or not, it just prints hello

[somber crag]

This is all you need

[tepid galleon]

the initial comment of the post was trying to check if there is any name

[wraith citrus]

any way i can make it so that if theres no name, it will just print the "enter a name"?

and then use that name?

[somber crag]

if name == True and if name are not equivalent

[somber crag]

What name are you expecting the user to enter?

[wraith citrus]

any

like

a random assortment of letters or giberish would do

[somber crag]

technically if name is checking the length of the string. If it's a length of greater than 0, it's valid

so if name will work, and so will if len(name) > 0

you can use else to handle the invalid name

[wraith citrus]

then what should i use to check if the user left it empty

[gritty temple]

if name: for anything entered,
if not name: for nothing entered,
if name and not name == "something": ie, admin etc.

[somber crag]

if name:
    print(f"You entered {name}")
else:
    print("You did not enter a name")

we use else for that

we have 2 scenarios. You either entered a name, or you didn't

[wraith citrus]

oh this works aswell

[wraith citrus]

yea thanks

but i prob did a really dumb and stupid mistake

this is the code i just showed u guys

[somber crag]

yeah, you shouldn't be comparing to True and False here

[wraith citrus]

exactly

oh ya

and also

the 2nd line

i though there was smth wrong in the code, that was printing hello

and that was it

[tepid galleon]

!e
Or you could only do this if you want to check if they did not enter any names

name = ""
if not name:
  print("You did not enter any names")

[undone cairn]

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

You did not enter any names

[gritty temple]

that usage would be to build flags to use for other things

[wraith citrus]

oh yea it works, thanks

[wraith citrus]

what does that mean, srry u might need to dumb it down abit im quite new

[gritty temple]

u_name = False
u_pass = False
while not u_name and not u_pass:
username = input()
if username:
u_name = True
print('blah')
else:
print('enter a username')
continue
userpass = input()
if userpass:
u_pass = True
print('blah')
else:
print('must enter a pass')
continue
if u_name and u_pass:
break
else:
continue

im on phone, but thats simple logic that can be refined for each

like it gets weird, but you can do a lot of different things to keep asking for a username and subsequent inputs..
probably best to throw each into its own little function, but flags allow you to track that a variable was input and verified with a true/false flag so that you can use them accumilative to pass conditions

so if all flags met, continue to next step.. else restart the whole thing or restart each input.. also restart each input X amount of retries then error out etc

[wraith citrus]

Alr, damn bro, didn't expect u to put in so much effort, appreciated fr bro

Thanks for your time

[gritty temple]

🙂 enjoying morning coffee before work..

[undone cairn]

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