Python Program that Prints Greeting + Entered Name, Special Cases - Nested Conditionals

Question

In this program, I must ask the user What is your name?, and then respond by printing out a personalized greeting.

In general, for a person named NAME, respond by printing Hello NAME. Eg. For a person named Maria, respond by printing Hello Maria

There is a special rule, however, for Amar and Brandy. These two names should receive unique greetings (and smiley faces), such that:

• For a person named Amar, respond by saying Hi Amar :)
• For a person named Brandy, respond by saying Ahoy Brandy :D

The robot grader will only mark my solution correct if my print statements match EXACTLY what was specified above.

Here is what I tried in a Live Python Editor

Name = ""
# Prompt user for user-defined information
Name = raw_input('What is your Name? ')
if "" = Amar:
    print ("Hi Amar :)")
if "" = Brandy:
    print ("Ahoy Brandy :D")
else: 
    print ("Hello + """) 

This code returned an error message on line four:

SyntaxError: invalid syntax (<string>, line 4)

How may I improve this code so that there are no errors and the program runs as expected?

EDIT I fixed the errors on lines 4 and 6, so now my code looks like this:

Name = ""
# Prompt user for user-defined information
Name = raw_input('What is your Name? ')
if Name == 'Amar':
print ("Hi Amar :)")
if Name == 'Brandy':
print ("Ahoy Brandy :D")
else: 
print ("Hello + """) 

But I'm still getting an error message:

"NameError: name 'raw_input' is not defined"

How do I define 'raw_input'? Don't I define it by entering a name into a dialogue box? (No dialogue box is showing up)

EDIT 2 Learned that raw_input is not compatible with version 3 of Python - switched Python editor to version 2. The code now works for names "Amar" and "Brandy" but not for any other name - we still get "Hello + " instead of "Hello Steven". Any idea why this is happening?

EDIT 3 The key to getting the program to run exactly how I wanted was to use a Nested Conditional - I needed to put an if statement inside of an if statement to make sure that both conditions were met.

name = input('What is your name? ')
if name != 'Amar':
  if name != 'Brandy':
    print("Hello " + name)
if name == 'Amar':
  print("Hi Amar :)")
if name == 'Brandy':
  print("Ahoy Brandy :D")

This says that if the name entered is not Amar or Brandy, print "Hello" + the name. If the name entered is Amar or Brandy, though, print according to their unique conditions.

Answer 1

if "" = Amar:

tries to assign a variable named Amar (that doesn't exist) to an empty string (meaningless).

Watch out for the = assignement operator and == equality operator.

You want to check if Name equals to "Amar":

if Name == 'Amar':