[Tutor] if statement

Joel Goldstick joel.goldstick at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 20:42:21 CET 2010


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Glen Clark <glenuk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried that and it still does not work.
>
> On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 15:13 -0400, James Reynolds wrote:
> > the syntax is:
> >
> >
> > if True:
> >      do something that you want to do if the condition you are testing
> > is True, in your case when confirmed is "y"
> > elif True:
> >      optional: do something else when the above condition is false and
> > this condition is True.
> > else:
> >      do something else when the above conditions are false.
> >
> >
> > You can try this,
> >
> >
> > if confirmed == "y":
> >     stuff
> > else:
> >     pass
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Glen Clark <glenuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >          File "/home/glen/workspace/test.py", line 19
> >            if confirmed == "y":
> >                               ^
> >         SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >
> >         Why does this not work??? PyDev says "Expected:else"
> >
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>   change = int(input("Which item would you like to change: ")

In the line about you have mismatched parentheses.  This confuses the parser

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