Can inputs be used as a variable?

Question

I am trying to create a quiz in Python that uses user input and of course booleans. At the moment here is my code.

score = 0
print("Welcome to the quiz")
print("What is the Capital of Iceland")
print(" A Reykjavik")
print("B. Villinus")
input("Please write your answer")
if input = A
print ("Correct")
score = 1
else
("Sorry that is incorrect the answer is A")

Unfortunately The error is:

File "file0.py", line 7
if input = A
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Can someone tell me how to phrase my code in the right way and tell me what I am doing wrong

Answer 1

first assign that input function to a variable:

user_input = input("Please write your answer")

then, correct the mistake at conditional statement.
change
if input = A
to
if user_input == "A"

Explanation:

input() will return what the user put in the terminal

input = A is an assignment operator where you assign A to some variable input
the A in that expression is not a string

user_input== "A" is what you want to do. that is where you compare user_input with "A". The reason why you must right "A" (with quotation is) by default, the return value you get from input() function is a string. So, that string is stored in variable user_input. You want to compare that user_input with another string if that make sense

Answer 2

See this and see it in detail, my code is the right code, if any problems in understanding then message me
Okey
Happy Coding!
https://code.sololearn.com/c9O1lr45HJv3/?ref=app

Answer 3

Thank you very much