[Tutor] Help with else

[Nick Brodsky]

name = raw_input("What is your name")

print "Great! Now %s, are you a boy or a girl?" % (name)

gender = raw_input("")

if gender == "boy":
print " I can see that, you are very strong":
if gender == "girl":
print ' Yes, and a beautiful one':
else:
print "Your choice"


I don't understand why it doesn't work, it just skips over the else. Thanks for

the help!


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[Alan Gauld]

Post by Nick Brodsky
name = raw_input("What is your name")
print "Great! Now %s, are you a boy or a girl?" % (name)
gender = raw_input("")
print "Your choice"
I don't understand why it doesn't work, it just skips over the else.

Not for me it didn't, it gave an error.

Please always post exactly what the program produces
don't try to summarize.

In this case there are several potential errors but the first
thing to fix are the colons after the print statements. You
only need colons on the end of control statements such as
for, while, if/else etc.

The second thing that I see is that although (I assume)
you only want the 'your choice' to print if the user
selects something other than boy/girl it will print
even for boy. That's because the boy section is in
a separate if statement.

Like this simplified snippet:

if boy: print....

if girl: print...
else: print...


But I think you wanted

if boy: print...
elif girl: print ...
else: print...

Can you see the difference in logic?

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[Enes Unal]

may be this one?

name = raw_input("What is your name")

print "Great! Now %s, are you a boy or a girl?" % (name)

gender = raw_input("")

if gender == "boy":
print " I can see that, you are very strong"
elif gender == "girl":
print ' Yes, and a beautiful one'
else:
print "Your choice"

Post by Nick Brodsky
name = raw_input("What is your name")
print "Great! Now %s, are you a boy or a girl?" % (name)
gender = raw_input("")
print "Your choice"
I don't understand why it doesn't work, it just skips over the else. Thanks for
the help!
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