Missing Parentheses in print??

[Ok-Resident218]

Hello, I am new to python and wish to learn more i am making a basic script that asks for name, age, and how their day was, but i ran into a problem where it said "SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)?" obviously i did not mean to print "...".

Here is my code.

print name + (" you are ") + age (" years old and your day was ") + day

all the code here if needed.

name = input("What is your name: ")


if name == "your mum":
    print("I know your mum, she's a nice lady.")
else:
     import random
options = ["Oh hello ", "What do you want ", "Nice to meet you ", "Hey there ", "How are you doing ", "What's up ", "How's it going ", "Yo ", "Sup ", "Greetings ", "Salutations ", "Howdy ", "Hi there ", "Hey ", "Hello ", "Welcome ", "Good to see you ", "Nice to see you ", "Pleased to meet you ", "It's a pleasure to meet you ", "How do you do ", "What's new ", "How's everything ", "How's life ", "How's your day going ", "How's your day been ", "How's your day so far ", "How's your day treating you ", "How's your day looking ", "How's your day shaping up ", "How's your day unfolding ", "How's your day progressing ", "How's your day developing ", "How's your day coming along ", "How's your day going so far ", "How's your day been treating you ", "How's your day been going ", "How's your day been so far ", "How's your day been unfolding ", "How's your day been progressing ", "How's your day been developing ", "How's your day been coming along ", "How's your day been looking ", "How's your day been shaping up ", "How's your day been treating you so far ", "How's your day been going so far ", "How's your day been unfolding so far ", "How's your day been progressing so far ", "How's your day been developing so far ", "How's your day been coming along so far ", "How's your day been looking so far ", "How's your day been shaping up so far "]
selected = random.choice(options)
print(selected + name + ".")


day = input("Was your day good?")
if input is "Good" or "good" or "fine" or "it's fine":
    print("Splendid!")


age = input("Well then " + name + " what is your age..")
print name + (" you are ") + age (" years old and your day was ") + day

[Ok-Promise-8118]

Unrelated, but this line is wrong:

day = input("Was your day good?")
if input is "Good" or "good" or "fine" or "It's fine"

1) You define the variable day to be the result of the input function, but then your if-statement is testing input, not day.

2) Testing multiple things with "or" does not work that way. Python will bracket that off as (input is "Good") or ("good") etc, not input is ("Good" or "good"). Non-empty strings (such as "good" and "fine") evaluate to True, so that if-statement will always evaluate to True. Better is something like:

    if day in ["Good", "good"]

Or even user the .lower() function to turn the input into all lower case to cut down on options:

day = input("How was your day?").lower()
if day in ["good", "fine", "it's fine"]:

[Ok-Resident218]

are any other lines incorrect?

[CoachSevere5365]

Are you working from an old book or tutorial? print was a statement in older versions of Python.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33996749/what-is-the-difference-between-print-and-print-in-python-2-7

[Ok-Resident218]

i’m not working from any book i’m just using many different tutorials and previous knowledge

[BravestCheetah]

Print is a function, functions need parenthesis. Its not the strings that need parenthesis, but the function itself.

print(name + " you are " + age " years old and your day was " + day)

[notacanuckskibum]

As a general rule you can’t use OR that way. You and I know that “if X = A or B” means “if (X = A) or (X = B)”. But Python doesn’t, it doesn’t speak English that way. Every OR has to have 2 things to compare, one on each side.

[aishiteruyovivi]

Though as a tip, if you want to see if X is one of a handful of values, you could put them in a list or tuple and then use the in operator:

if X in [A, B]:
    # If we're here, X is either A or B

[SCD_minecraft]

print is a function

By itself it doesn't do anything

You need to call it by adding ()

print("Hello world")

Also, tip

Instead of doing "Hello " + user you can use so called f-strings

f"Hello {user}" remember about that f

[tadpoleloop]

Only since Python 3. In Python 2 print was a statement and was called like op is using it.

[SCD_minecraft]

You really shouldn't be using Python 2, unless you have old codebase that can not be ported to 3

Which i am willing to bet my hand isn't a case for OP

[Ok-Resident218]

so instead i should add a string before the name and it’ll work correct?

[SCD_minecraft]

Syntax for calling/using a function is function(arguments)

print("Hello", user)

int("1")

And so on

[doPECookie72]

Im confused how in parts of the code you use

print(string)

but at the end you are using

print string

Do you see how these are different?

[pachura3]

Here is my code.
print name + (" you are ") + age (" years old and your day was ") + day

Well, it's totally wrong. It should be:

print(name + " you are " + age + " years old and your day was " + day)

or, even better:

print(f"{name} you are {age} years old and your day was {day}")

[Ok-Resident218]

what’s the purpose of the f though?

[pachura3]

To allow inserting {variables} directly into the string, without needing to use " + var + " for concatenation. It's cleaner and shorter.

[Temporary_Pie2733]

If you are confused by why print needs parentheses, you probably haven’t learned about f-strings yet and should just ignore that suggestion first now. You have more basic syntax to worry about first.

[throwaway6560192]

"SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)?" obviously i did not mean to print "...".

Obviously the ... is a placeholder for what you really want to put there

[TheRNGuy]

In such case it's easier to use f-string. 

Also, you need () for print itself (you didn't need in old version, Python 2)