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Python Python Basics Types and Branching Comparisons

Posted by Victor A Hernandez
Victor A Hernandez
1,957 Points

elif. What I made wrong with these?. My code does not run.I receive a message: Invalid sintax in line 8.

first_name = input ("What is your first name?")
print ("Hello,", first_name)
if first_name =="Craig":
    print (first_name, "is learning Python")
    print ("Have a great day {}!" .format (first_name))
else:
    print ("You should totally learn Python, {}!" .format (first_name))
elif first_name == "Maximiliano":
    print (first_name, "is learning with fellow students in

[MOD:: added ```python formatting -cf]

3 Answers

Tiffany Greathead
Tiffany Greathead
6,613 Points

Hi Victor,

Your code looks good, you're on the right track. The last line has an elif statement after the else statement, which may be causing your error. Try moving the 

elif first_name == "Maximiliano": 
  print (first_name, "is learning with fellow students in")

above the else statement.

Else statements always come after if and elif statements, they tell the program that if none of the above statements apply, do this. Also, the last line of code is incomplete. It needs to have ending quotation marks and parentheses, unless that part got cut off by accident. Hope this helps

Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,454 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,454 Points

Good answer Tiffany! Thanks for helping out in the community forum. Comment moved to answer.

Tiffany Greathead
Tiffany Greathead
6,613 Points

Thank you, Chris Freeman.

I'll be sure to post it in the right section next time :)

Victor A Hernandez
Victor A Hernandez
1,957 Points
Victor A Hernandez
Victor A Hernandez
1,957 Points

Thank you Tiffany, I'll do the correction and I'll let you know what happens. The last part of my code was cut by error.

Victor A Hernandez
Victor A Hernandez
1,957 Points
Victor A Hernandez
Victor A Hernandez
1,957 Points

else: print ("You should totally learn Python, {}!" .format (first_name)) else: print ("You should totally learn Python, {}!" .format (first_name)) I made the change , and my code worked. Thank you again Tiffany.

Tiffany Greathead
Tiffany Greathead
6,613 Points

No problem! Glad it helped