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Python Python Basics (2015) Letter Game App Letter Game Refinement

Christopher Lobato
Christopher Lobato
1,625 Points
Posted by Christopher Lobato
Christopher Lobato
1,625 Points

I have no idea what could possibly be wrong, but I'm getting a syntax error on a colon when I tried this script...

def welcome(): start = input("Press enter/return to start or Q to quit. ".lower()

if start == 'q':  <------------------------------  What could possibly be wrong here???
    print ("Bye!")
    sys.exit()
else:
    return True

print ("Welcome to Leter Guess!")

done = False

while True: clear() welcome() play(done)

john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

Hey Chris, did this ever get resolved?

2 Answers

John Simmons
John Simmons
1,247 Points
John Simmons
John Simmons
1,247 Points

Are you mixing tabs/spaces? Have you imported sys?

Christopher Lobato
Christopher Lobato
1,625 Points
Christopher Lobato
Christopher Lobato
1,625 Points

This is the exact code he used in the video. I've redone the indentation a million times, sys has been imported. It just keeps popping up with a syntax error only on that colon.

Nikolai Montesclaros
Nikolai Montesclaros
11,928 Points
Nikolai Montesclaros
Nikolai Montesclaros
11,928 Points

Not sure about the context of the question but syntactically I can see that you have a space on your print statement.

print("Bye")
Christopher Lobato
Christopher Lobato
1,625 Points
Christopher Lobato
Christopher Lobato
1,625 Points

Here we go.

def welcome():
    start = input("Press enter/return to start or Q to quit. ".lower()
    if start == 'q':
        print ("Bye!")
        sys.exit()
    else:
        return True