Why does this syntax error occur?

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Why does this syntax error occur?

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Code:

print ('oi,tudo bem?')
name = input ()
if name == 'Alice':
    print ('oi, alice.')
    else name != 'Alice'
    print ('Tchau.')

Error:

e/emulated/0/qpython/vampi.py" && exit 
File "/storage/emulated/0/qpython/vampi.p 
y", line 5 
else name != 'Alice' 
     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax 
1 |u0_a266@jflte:/ $ |

python-3.x

asked by anonymous 22.06.2018 / 21:45

1 answer

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score 5 · Accepted Answer

You have several errors:

Indentation is incorrect
missing : after else
Incidentally, the else should be elif and the : should come after name != 'Alice'
line break missing after else

The correct one would be:

print ('oi,tudo bem?')
name = input ()

if name == 'Alice':
    print ('oi, alice.')
elif name != 'Alice':
    print ('Tchau.')

While looking at the script, you do not even need != 'Alice' , since the first if and elif would be redundant in this case , then that's enough:

print ('oi,tudo bem?')
name = input ()

if name == 'Alice':
    print ('oi, alice.')
else:
    print ('Tchau.')