Why does it say syntax error on line 3

Question

def search(text, word):
if(text.find(word)):
return ("Word found")
else:
return ("Word not found")

text = input()
word = input()

print(search(text, word))

Answer 1

Your code works fine for me without error, but you should be a bit cleaner with your indentation spacing.

def search(text, word):
if(text.find(word)):
return("Word found")
else:
return("Word not found")

text = input()
word = input()

print(search(text, word))

Answer 2

There is an error with the else statement. It outputs word found for all statement

Answer 3

Ah, that's because all non-zero numbers are truthy in python. The find() method returns -1 when not found and the first index of the found item otherwise. So this isn't a good way to use the method, but you can add != -1 and make it work.

if text.find(word) != -1: