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Python Python Basics (2015) Logic in Python Conditional Value

Tarique Hasheem
Tarique Hasheem
434 Points
Posted by Tarique Hasheem
Tarique Hasheem
434 Points

This bites! Online answers are no-help and I'm giving-up, moving-on to the next step.

admitted = None if age >= 13: admitted = True

The first step above passes

else: admitted = False

second step fails. I've tried all sorts of alternatives and variations and it keeps taking me back to step one.

conditions.py 
admitted = None

if age >= 13:
    admitted = True
    else:
        admitted = False

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

The code in your solution is technically correct, but the indentation (spacing) is wrong. else statements has to be indented to the same level as the if statement they accompany. Like this:

admitted = None

if age >= 13:
    admitted = True
else:
    admitted = False

In python getting indentation right is essential as Python determines how to group code blocks almost entirely on how they are indented. You can end up with code that act widely different from its intended behavior simply by messing up the indentation.