What did I do wrong?

Question

I was doing an very easy exercise and wrote such code:

for n in range(int(input())):
print(n if n % 5 == 0)

But sololearn’s playground says ‘invalid syntax: line 2’, I think u’ll understand what should this program do, what did I do wrong?

Answer 1

That's not a valid syntax .

Correct way,
for n in range(25):
print(n) if n%5 == 0 else ""

Answer 2

TriXioN
You can do so inside the print as well, but you need the else statement also. There are also going to be formatting differences between the 2 variations as 1 will always print() so the outputs will be spaced out by several lines, while the other will not. Try running both to see the differences.

for i in range(25):
print(i if i%5==0 else '')

Vs

for i n range(25):
print(i) if i%5==0 else None

Answer 3

Abhay
No, print() function can take ‘if’ condition, it works in my code

https://sololearn.com/coach/1042/?ref=app

Answer 4

Abhay
But why we should to put *if* out of brackets? It worked in brackets before

Answer 5

TriXioN probably because print is a function that takes an argument and just prints it . It isn't going to evaluate the if condition like we do in list comprehension .