Really n00bish python question

[Gnobody]

I was reading some Dive into Python for the first time and I was wondering why my simple name/string program doesn't work:


print "Welcome"
print
name = raw_input("Please enter in your name: ")
if name == "Jason" then
print "Hello Jason!"
else
print "Go away!"

[sas]

I was reading some Dive into Python for the first time and I was wondering why my simple name/string program doesn't work:

Your problem is missing ":" after if and else, also next isn't a keyword in python (iirc)
your code should look more like this:
print "Welcome"
print
name = raw_input("Please enter in your name: ")
if name == "Jason":
print "Hello Jason!"
else:
print "Go away!"

[Gnobody]

Your problem is missing ":" after if and else, also next isn't a keyword in python (iirc)
your code should look more like this:
print "Welcome"
print
name = raw_input("Please enter in your name: ")
if name == "Jason":
print "Hello Jason!"
else:
print "Go away!"
Wow, Python and Gedit pwn me. Now to learn PyGTK...