Why is this invalid syntax?

[spice ether]

@median basin

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[median basin]

start = input("|||START:k|||")
while start == ("k"):
    answer = input("|||Press Enter x2||")
    if (answer== input()):
        guntopt = (random.choice(guntype))
        print ("-------------------------")
        print ("|GUN TYPE: " + guntopt)
        print ("|GUN SIZE:",(random.choice(gunsize)))
        if guntopt == ("redpowder"):
            print ("|SHOTS: " + (random.choice(rpshots))
            print ("|COOLDOWN:" + (random.randint(1,2) + "seconds")
        if guntopt == ("hybrid"):
            print ("|SHOTS: " + (random.choice(bsshots))
            print ("|COOLDOWN:" + (random.randint(1,4) + "seconds")
        if guntopt == ("bloodshot"):
            print ("|SHOTS: " + (random.choice(bsshots))
            print ("|COOLDOWN:" + (random.randint(1,2) + "seconds")
        if guntopt == ("rayspitter"):
            print ("|SHOTS: Ammoless)
            print ("|COOLDOWN:" + (random.randint(1,6) + "seconds")```

specifically this part

[north nebula]

One ( too much

[river ginkgo]

Have a look at the previous line above where the error is pointing to. Count the number of parenthesis you have

[north nebula]

Also you don't need the parentheses in the comparisons

[median basin]

ahhhhh ty omg

[median basin]

same error, fixed all the parenthasies

[river ginkgo]

Do the same thing

[median basin]

what do you mean by comparisons?

[potent token]

The amount of brackets makes me think this is Lisp

[north nebula]

if guntopt == ("redpowder"): could be if guntopt == "redpowder":?

[median basin]

aahh

[median basin]

?

[north nebula]

Half the brackets on the screenshot are redundant

[potent token]

It's a programming language in which brackets are used a lot. Some of the brackets in your code are unnecessary

[north nebula]

Missing another one in line 46

[river ginkgo]

@median basin You should be pasting your code to share it. That way people can copy it and modify it to show you how many brackets can be reduced.

[median basin]

i did up here

[river ginkgo]

True

I forgot mb

[median basin]

it's giving me a different error now

[north nebula]

The issue in line 46 is still there

Like I said

Just count your parentheses, should be the same amount of opening and closing ones

Also things might be clearer if you get rid of the ones you don't actually need

[median basin]

print ("|COOLDOWN:" + (random.randint(1,4)) + "seconds")

it says this is invalid syntax

[north nebula]

Yeah

Because the line before that is incorrect

Did you read the 3 messages in which I told you line 46 is the issue?

[river ginkgo]

You can't concatenate ints and str?

[north nebula]

3 opening, 2 closing

[potent token]

Did you not test your code while writing it? There are so many errors

Like I test my code after some progress. I run into fewer errors if I do that instead of writing the whole thing at once

[north nebula]

Gotta use le f-strings

Or str(some int value)

[median basin]

I do test it, it's just that there is a section underneath this one that has the exact same structure so I copy pasted it and changed the variables & strings it spits out

[river ginkgo]

Concatenation is putting one thing next to another. The error is telling you that you can't put a string and an integer together. This is because they're two different data types and python doesn't know exactly how you want to handle the + between them

[median basin]

Ahh ok

[river ginkgo]

not rob has provided some ways to get it working

[median basin]

I'll just take out the "seconds" part

[river ginkgo]

Either using string formatting (f-strings) or convert the integer into a string (which will allow string to string concatenation)

[potent token]

or you can use vim motion

[median basin]

also I apologize for the repeated errors with the parenthasies, I have dyslexia and I have serious issues determining how many of one sort of symbol there are next to each other.

[potent token]

probably better to code in an IDE and install an extension for colorful brackets then

[median basin]

I'm on a chromebook, online-python is the best browser based one I know of.

[north nebula]

I will now exit this thread so that it stays safe for work and wish all of you the best of luck with magic Python things 🗿

[river ginkgo]

Lmao fair enough

[median basin]

oh one more thing actually

how do I make it give me an intager as a string?

[potent token]

we told you twice how to do it...

[median basin]

str(random.randint(1,2)) like this?

[potent token]

yes