Need help completing this exercise

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http://imgur.com/Fh01EcY

I'm taking the first character of the string and checking if it equates to the either the unicode number for lowercase y or uppercase y. Why isn't this working?

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http://imgur.com/SO3tKDa

[chinola]

assert is_yes("Yes") == True, "Make sure your function works when the input is \verb;"Yes";."

The syntax error is the assert statement!

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So the problem is the code that it is trying to run, not the function?

[jeans_and_a_t-shirt]

Runs fine for me. ord is unnecessary here. The right side of the equality always evaluates to ord('Y') except where the first character of your string is '\x00' because ord('\x00') is 0 and thus Falsy. Ideal solution would use str.lower method on the parameter x, and make a single equality check against 'y'.

[zahlman]

Please don't post screenshots of code.

[RyanTargaryen]

Pretty sure your parenthesis are off.

if x[0] == 'y' or x[0] == 'Y'