[Tutor] elif statement

[Alan Gauld]

"Sudarshana Banerjee" <sudarshana.b at gmail.com> wrote

> Could you take a look at this please:
>>>> x=3
>>>> if x==0:
> print "x is 0"
> 
>>>> elif x&1==1:
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> See, the moment I am pressing Enter the >>> is coming.. not ...

IDLE doesn't give you a ... prompt it gives you spaces.
So you mistake is that ypu are hitting Enter after your print line. 
It needs to look like:

>>> x=3
>>> if x==0:
    print "x is 0"
elif x&1==1:
    print....

Which looks horrible and I wish Idle were fixed so it didn't do this.
I keep meaning to try and find a way to patch it myself!


Essentially you need to ignore the >>> offset in the if line.

HTH,

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