Getting a syntaxError when doing this:

Question

So I'm trying to run the following code:
userInput = input()
if userInput = "yellow": (the error happens here)
print("invalid color")
Else:
print("finished")

So i put yellow when it asks for input but get a syntaxError. Any help?

Answer 1

You are using the assignment operator (=) in the if statement instead of the equal to operator (==). It should be like this:

if userInput == "yellow":

By the way, the else stament has to be in lowercases (else instead of Else) or you will get another error.

Hope it helps

Answer 2

Python doesn't test if assignment (=) works. Use equivalence (==) instead.

'else' should be all lowercase.