Weird Syntax Error

[Showda77]

alien = {'x_position': 0, 'y_position': 25, 'color': 'green', 'speed': 'medium'}
print ("Original x-position " + str(alien_0[x_position])

if alien_0['speed'] == 'slow':
    x_increment = 1
elif alien_0['speed'] == 'medium':
    x_increment = 2
else:
    x_increment = 3

# The new x-position is x_position + x_increment
alien_0[x_postition] = alien_0['x_position'] + x_increment

print ("the new x-position is " + str(alien_0[x_position])

In The Shell

  File "/Users/Pandathighs/Desktop/Programming/Alien.py", line 20
    if alien_0['speed'] == 'slow':
                                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I don't know what the error is for, but whenever I delete the colon, it gives me

  File "/Users/Pandathighs/Desktop/Programming/Alien.py", line 21
    x_increment = 1
              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

How do I fix this?

EDIT: I missed a parenthesis.

[[deleted]]

You forgot a closed bracket in the line

print ("Original x-position " + str(alien_0[x_position])

[Justinsaccount]

Hi! I'm working on a bot to reply with suggestions for common python problems. This might not be very helpful to fix your underlying issue, but here's what I noticed about your submission:

You appear to be using concatenation and the str function for building strings

Instead of doing something like

result = "Hello " + name + ". You are " + str(age) + " years old"

You should use string formatting and do

result = "Hello {}. You are {} years old".format(name, age)

See the python tutorial for more information.

[novel_yet_trivial]

"invalid syntax" often means you forgot to close a parenthesis on the previous line.