🔒 code input no work if hi bye

[olive cape]

123

[tropic fossil]

@olive cape

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[olive cape]

@frosty oasis

if input ("hi"):
print("bye")

alr so

why didnt this work

[frosty oasis]

Start simpler:

[olive cape]

mmm

[frosty oasis]

my_message = input("Type something please")
print(my_message)

[olive cape]

thats simpler?

[frosty oasis]

Try it

[ionic hamlet]

ok so what do you suppose this line does: if input("hi"):

[olive cape]

when i press play, i expect it to give me the option to write smth, i write hi and then it says bye

[olive cape]

i did and im confused

[frosty oasis]

Ok, what are you confused about?

[ionic hamlet]

have you actually read the documentation of input()?

something tells me you haven't even looked at it

[olive cape]

i wrote it and pressed play

nd then it js

says

[ionic hamlet]

"pressed play"?

[olive cape]

"ap csp" in what i wrote in the ("123")

[olive cape]

idk what its called bro im new

[wraith ledge]

They ran the program ig

[ionic hamlet]

I don't know what you're referring to

[olive cape]

no i dont know this im watching a vid and testing this out

[olive cape]

ues

[wraith ledge]

Prolly vsc

[olive cape]

ran the program

[olive cape]

visual studio code

yea

[frosty oasis]

You're good. So waht are you confused about?

[olive cape]

it js prints it

[ionic hamlet]

prints what

[olive cape]

i dont get it

[frosty oasis]

Yes, now read the code I gave you

[olive cape]

bro i dont think u understand wat im saying

it legit

printed tihs

[frosty oasis]

Yup, whatever you type, it'll print.

[olive cape]

after i copy paste

[olive cape]

isnt

print("123")

simpler

[ionic hamlet]

depends on what you want to do

[olive cape]

how

[ionic hamlet]

how what

[frosty oasis]

I'm trying to show you how "input" works.

[ionic hamlet]

speak in complete sentences please

[olive cape]

oh

[olive cape]

how does it depend on what i want to do

[frosty oasis]

Input is a function that "returns" whatever the user typed.

[olive cape]

mmmm ok i understand that

ty

but

i want to make it so

when i run the cmd

[frosty oasis]

my_message = input("Type something") will take whatever you typed and store it in "my_message"

Now, you want an "if" statement to check if my_message is "Hi", right?

[olive cape]

i write like for exmaple "123" then itll re write to me "4321

or smt

[ionic hamlet]

ok, what's the logic then?

[olive cape]

yea sure

makes sense

[ionic hamlet]

what if you type foo instead?

should it print "4foo"?

[olive cape]

whats foo

what

[frosty oasis]

if my_message == "Hi":
  print("Hi to you too")
else:
  print("Why u no say hi?")

[ionic hamlet]

I'm asking what the logic will be

[olive cape]

OH YEAH THIS

tysm bro

[ionic hamlet]

you said that if you type 123 to the prompt it should print 4321

by what logic?

[olive cape]

this logic

[ionic hamlet]

this doesn't prepend 4 to the string

[olive cape]

rq so my_message simply means ur giving the user the oppurtinty to write smt

what does IF mean

what does if do

[ionic hamlet]

it runs the indented code block if the expression evaluates to true

[olive cape]

what happesn if no if

[ionic hamlet]

if there's no if, then there wouldn't be an indented code block following it either

[olive cape]

why this no work

[olive cape]

i copy pasted exactly this

[olive cape]

whats an indented code block

OH

OH

its

this space

behind print

right

[ionic hamlet]

indentation means spaces before the code line

[olive cape]

so the space behind print

alr

else is

if anything else

alr im starting to like coding its nice

connecting the dots

[ionic hamlet]

!e

if True:
    print("This is always printed")
if False:
    print("This is never printed")

[wraith ledge]

I think you should learn some beginner course on python, it will be very easy.

[olive cape]

wai

[ionic hamlet]

!e

if True:
    print("This is always printed")
if False:
    print("This is never printed")

[olive cape]

why isnt this working

[tropic fossil]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.13 eval job has completed with return code 0.

This is always printed

[olive cape]

!e print("123")

[tropic fossil]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.13 eval job has completed with return code 0.

123

[olive cape]

whats true faulse

[frosty oasis]

Show the whole code

[olive cape]

what

[olive cape]

if my_message == "Hi":
print("Hi to you too")
else:
print("Why u no say hi?")

[tropic fossil]

Hey @olive cape!

Please edit your message to use a code block

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```

[olive cape]

i js copy pasted u

[frosty oasis]

Yah, but what happened to the input?

[ionic hamlet]

where did you set the value for my_message?

[frosty oasis]

This code was supposed to come after the original "input" code

[olive cape]

what input

oh

[frosty oasis]

this code

[olive cape]

if input ("hi"):
print("bye")

how do i

combine them8

[ionic hamlet]

how do you what

input("hi") prints a prompt with the message "hi" and then awaits user input

is that what you wanted to do?

[olive cape]

no

[frosty oasis]

Combine my two code blocks: #1410243182981021787 message and #1410243182981021787 message

[ionic hamlet]

well that is what input() does

[olive cape]

how do i make it work then

[wraith ledge]

You should store the value in a variable from input () and then use that variable to compare in if

[frosty oasis]

put them in the same file and run it

[olive cape]

my_message = input("Type something please")
print(my_message)
if my_message == "Hi":
print("Hi to you too")
else:
print("Why u no say hi?")

OH

oh yeah it works

[olive cape]

wait so

wait bro

bro

what do we call the guy who writes the codes and what do we clal the guy who runs cmd

user

[frosty oasis]

The programmer and user?

[olive cape]

ok ok

i thought my_message was js for what the user writes

[frosty oasis]

Let's talk about my_message = input("Type something please")

[olive cape]

yes this

[ionic hamlet]

yes, that's where the user's input is stored

[frosty oasis]

The thing on the left, "my_message" is a variable. It stores whatever comes from the right side (of the =)

[olive cape]

whats a variable...

x y z?

[frosty oasis]

It's just a label for some data. Like x,y,z in math... or "my_message"

[olive cape]

hmm i dont understand but alright

how is my message js a variable

[wraith ledge]

Variable name can be anything that follows a naming convention

[olive cape]

so wait my message does 2 stuff

[frosty oasis]

"my_message" is just a name for whatever you typed.

[olive cape]

not js what user writes

[olive cape]

oh?

[frosty oasis]

You could've written: "billy_bobby_is_awesome"

[olive cape]

how will the python know its a variable

[frosty oasis]

Because it's on the left side of an equals sign

[olive cape]

oh

thats tuff

[frosty oasis]

abc = "My Name is Apple"

[olive cape]

so wait it could be

[frosty oasis]

That means the variable abc is the string "My Name is Apple"

[olive cape]

123 = input("456")

[olive cape]

wht does this do

!e
123 = input("456")

[tropic fossil]

:x: Your 3.13 eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 |   File "/home/main.py", line 1
002 |     123 = input("456")
003 |     ^^^
004 | SyntaxError: cannot assign to literal here. Maybe you meant '==' instead of '='?

[frosty oasis]

There's some rules with variable names... like, they can't be numbers.

[olive cape]

zxc

[frosty oasis]

that'd work

[olive cape]

!e
zxc = input("456")

[tropic fossil]

:x: Your 3.13 eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 | 456Traceback (most recent call last):
002 |   File "/home/main.py", line 1, in <module>
003 |     zxc = input("456")
004 | EOFError: EOF when reading a line

[frosty oasis]

The bot can't do input

[olive cape]

kk

wait so

with this

i can make a manual calculator

like

[frosty oasis]

Sure, a lot of students will do small projects like - a physics equation calculator.

[olive cape]

s = input("write here MAX NUMBERS UP TO 10: ")
print(s)
if s == "5+2"
print("7")

i can spam this but

waoit

then it can mbe

9+9

itll print 18

5+4 9

or is there an easier way

[umbral atlas]

what I've seen most do is they ask for the first num, then the operator, and then the second num, and you perform something based on that.

[frosty oasis]

There is an easier way, but you first need to get a little stronger at the basics.

[olive cape]

alrigh

[olive cape]

what

[umbral atlas]

you take 3 inputs: one for a number, one for the type of operation (add, sub, etc), and one for another number, and then you do an operation based on the type the user asked for (you would do this with an if which is what you're tackling now I think)

[olive cape]

Can I see an example

[frosty oasis]

(they're struggling with what functions are, and how to construct if statements, so I fear this may be premature)

[olive cape]

Bro whta

[frosty oasis]

Try reading these examples first and make sure they make sense: https://python.swaroopch.com/io.html

[wraith ledge]

If you have understood clearly wht u learned now, you can do it by yourself with just that, think about it.

[frosty oasis]

Sorry, I meant this link: https://python.swaroopch.com/functions.html

(i guess i mean the entire book)

[olive cape]

alr wait ill try

but i didnt memorize it so i needa keep looking back at

billy bobys msg

[wraith ledge]

one thing I will say is that if you want to take a integer (number) as input then you gotta use int(input("enter the number"))

[frosty oasis]

Yup, what I'm really saying is - experiment with what I gave you.

Once you understand it, and can make changes to it... then you'll be ready for calculator.

[tropic fossil]

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