🔒 Where is "else"?

[royal hull]

@median egret

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[median egret]

is_john = True

if is_john: True
print(f"You are {first_name}")
else:
print(f"You are not {first_name}")

[heavy jacinth]

well the code is wrong

[tawdry ledge]

indent

[heavy jacinth]

because you didnt put colon at the end and didnt indent the print

[median egret]

colon behind : ?

[heavy jacinth]

colon after 'true'

[cunning pendant]

It's not that there's no colon, it's that the True is confusing things. Get rid of the true. Why do you have that there?

[median egret]

im following a guide

[cunning pendant]

Did you mean == True?

If you meant if is_john == True:, just put if is_john:.

[median egret]

this is what it did in the guide and i tried testing something out

[median egret]

okay

[royal hull]

Comparisons to `True` and `False`

It's tempting to think that if statements always need a comparison operator like == or !=, but this isn't true.
If you're just checking if a value is truthy or falsey, you don't need == True or == False.

# instead of this...
if user_input.startswith('y') == True:
    my_func(user_input)

# ...write this
if user_input.startswith('y'):
    my_func(user_input)

# for false conditions, instead of this...
if user_input.startswith('y') == False:
    my_func(user_input)

# ...just use `not`
if not user_input.startswith('y'):
    my_func(user_input)

This also applies to expressions that use is True or is False.

[median egret]

thanks

but

one more thing

why dont i have else

it doesnt show up

[pastel gorge]

what's before that part in the code?

[cunning pendant]

You also need to indent the lines after if and else. Idk if that's why the plugin isn't suggesting else, but it's wrong currently.

[median egret]

wait this sounds kinda dumb but whats indent

this?

[cunning pendant]

Adding spaces at the start of the line.

[median egret]

i js pressed enter

oh

[heavy jacinth]

if isjohn #isjohn == True:
  print(bla bla bla)
else:
  print()

[cunning pendant]

But with a colon at the end of th first line.

[median egret]

so this?

[heavy jacinth]

and indent print

[median egret]

colon after true?

[heavy jacinth]

yea

[median egret]

okay

[pastel gorge]

so you do know if works with any expression that evaluates to a truthy value?

[heavy jacinth]

every if statement must end with ':;

i mean ':'

[pastel gorge]

so if is_john is already a boolean value, you don't need == True

[heavy jacinth]

a colon

[median egret]

oh okay

[heavy jacinth]

yes but for the OP convenience i put it to make them understand

if booleans are true you can just write if 'boolean':

[median egret]

okay

thanks

also i wrote it now

with the indents

and the colon

after is_john

but

[heavy jacinth]

same goes for while, for, if-elif-else statements

[heavy jacinth]

indent the print statements

press 'tab' before the p in print

this is indenting

[median egret]

oh okay

mb

[heavy jacinth]

and remove the extra spaces

[heavy jacinth]

or just add 4 spaces

[median egret]

ah yes now theres

lines

on the left side

[heavy jacinth]

refer to this

indents are just 4 spaces

[median egret]

and they go infront of only the print?

[pastel gorge]

here's the logic – after an if, you want to indent the block of code that should be run if the condition matches

[median egret]

oh okay

[pastel gorge]

!e

variable = True
if variable:
   print("variable is true")
print("this is always printed")

variable = False
if variable:
   print("variable is true")
print("this is always printed")

[royal hull]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.14 eval job has completed with return code 0.

001 | variable is true
002 | this is always printed
003 | this is always printed

[median egret]

so after if and else i indent

thanks, it works now

[pastel gorge]

the indentation makes all the difference

[median egret]

and else actually works now

[median egret]

noted

thanks alot guys

[pastel gorge]

you can do !close if you have no further questions

[royal hull]

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