[Pythonmac-SIG] "elif" problem

Henning Hraban Ramm hraban at fiee.net
Wed Aug 10 17:15:03 CEST 2011


Am 2011-08-10 um 16:43 schrieb Doychin Stanchev:

> I am really new to the programming and I decided to start with  
> python. I found a book called "beginning python" and started to  
> learn, but I had a problem with the command "elif". I am running  
> 10.7 and python 2.72. Here is my problem:
>
> >>> milk_price = 1.50
> >>> if milk_price < 1.25:
> print "Buy two cartons of milk, they're on sale"
> elif milk_price < 2.00:
>
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax


I can’t tell if you used the right spacing, and there must come at  
least one command in your elif branch. E.g.:

if price < 1.25:
   print "on sale"
elif price < 2.00:
   pass



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Hraban
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