[Tutor] if else

[Paul Sidorsky]

Terje Johan Abrahamsen wrote:

> if a = 1 :

> But, it doesn't work. When I try to run it, I get the following response:
> "Failed to run script - syntax error - invalid syntax" What do I do wrong?

You need to use a double-equals, ==, to "test" a value.  This is to
clearly differentiate it from = which is used for assignment.  So your
second example becomes:

a = 1
if a == 1 :
    print "Yes"
else :
    print "No"

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