[Tutor] if/else statement

[Mats Wichmann]

And one more, the 'if' needs a colon at the end

On July 18, 2017 5:10:30 PM MDT, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org> wrote:
>On 18/07/17 18:31, Shane Johnson (shanejoh) wrote:
>
>> def greater_less_equal_5(answer):
>>        if answer is '>' 5
>>        return 1
>>        elif answer is < 5:
>>        return 0
>>        else:
>>        return 4
>
>> I’m getting a invalid syntax line 2 error. Any assistance is greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Thee are two problems.
>
>1) 'is' is a problem, you don't need it here. 'is' is an operator
>for testing whether two object references are to the same
>actual object
>eg.
>
>x = 42
>y = x   # y and x both refer to the same number
>if x is y: print 'yes!'
>
>You don't use it in mathematical comparisons so your code
>should look like:
>
>       if answer > 5
>          return 1
>       elif answer < 5:
>          return 0
>       else:
>          return 4
>
>Notice I also removed the quotes around the > sign and
>added indentation to the return statements which leads
>us to...
>
>2) You don't have any indentation in the function body.
>Indentation is all important in Python, it's how the
>interpreter knows where the conditional block starts
>and stops.
>
>HTH
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