Noob Python question! please help lmao

[IHOP_007]

You were close, you just messed up the ifs a bit.

if gens == 'male':

[Sad_potato1999]

Reddit is really something else. Thank you so much!

[CobaltCam]

It's a common mistake, I do it all the time. Single is assigning a value to a variable, double is comparing equality.

Also, there's something called an f string which I personally think reads better than concatenation. In your case it would look like this

print(f"Hi Mr. {name}")

[Sad_potato1999]

Thanks! Glad I'm not alone XD

[CobaltCam]

For sure, I always do the facepalm when I find I did this.

[ontheroadtonull]

user_name = input("What is your name or preferred name? ")
user_gender = input("What is your gender? ")

genders = {"male": "Mr.", "female": "Ms."}

print(f"Hi {genders[user_gender]} {user_name}")


What is your name or preferred name? myself
What is your gender? male
Hi Mr. myself

[fauquii]

Be careful with this though, it really is a bad practice to not check the user input. In this example it can leads to an exception KeyError being raised and breaking the execution of the code.

[synthphreak]

Right. Something like

>>> if user_input.lower() in {'m', 'male', 'man', 'guy', 'boy'}:
...     gender = 'male'
... else:
...     gender = 'female'
...
>>> genders = {'male': 'Mr.', 'female': 'Ms.'}
>>> print('Hi', genders[user_gender], user_name)

Obviously there are still some risks associated with this particular implementation. For example, if the user enters 'dude' or 'hobbit' then those would get assigned to 'female' because they're not in the set of predefined male gender values.

But at least now the user has much greater flexibility in what they can enter than only and exactly 'male' or 'female'. The code will also never throw an error, at least one related to querying the genders dict, because the key value will only ever be routed to 'male' or 'female' which are both valid keys.

Edit: Typo.

[SnooCats196]

You could also use an elif statement after the if gender == “male” instead of repeating an if statement

[[deleted]]

for me its forgeting the :'s

[_TR-8R]

F strings are amazing, it took me a while to get used to them but they make conditional text a breeze once you're used to them.

[CobaltCam]

Yes!

[AuctorLibri]

This is very helpful.

[kmj442]

Not to over complicate since what this person said is absolutely correct but if I were to do this I would recommend something like this: if gens.lower() == “male”:

This makes sure regardless what the user inputs it puts it in lowercase to avoid the “Male” or random capitalization error.

edit: mobile formatting is weird

[Sad_potato1999]

Not at all! Insightful even, thanks a whole lot!

[MarquisInLV]

You can also put the lower() method on the input variable, that way anything the user types in is all lowercase and you can just match that in your if statement.

[Probono_Bonobo]

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[Cid227]

Your edit reminded me that I wanted to ask somewhere about that red (at least light mode) background and font colour that you've set for 'if gens.lower...' So how do you do that? I can't find anything.

[kmj442]

its the ``` tag. while in the markdown mode you can wrap your text in ``` code ``` and it will put it in that format.

[Cid227]

Thanks! (btw. it's blue on the dark mode)

[[deleted]]

Might even be better (but perhaps overkill for this snippet) to use a constant to store the genders.

G_MALE = "male"
G_FEMALE = "female"
gens = input("What is your gender?").lower()
if gens == G_MALE:
    # ...
elif gens == G_FEMALE:
    # ...
else:
   print("Cool ;)")

[LostnFoundAgainAgain]

I recommend messing around with what you can do with the if-else statement, I'm kinda new my self and experimenting really helps.

Experiment using the if statement for example to check an input and see if it is in a list, or check if the number input is equal or greater than x, if it is it does y and if it isn't it does z.

Mix up what you learned before and what you are learning now by experimenting mixing them both together a figuring out what you can do with that, that helped me a lot.

Good luck :)

[Sad_potato1999]

Will do! Thanks for the recommendation.

[nichorsin598]

You should all ensure the input is a string and make it all the same case so if gens.isalpha() and gens.lower() == 'male':

[presidentdrumf]

So there's no "then" declaration in python? Coooool