with input remove a string from the list

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with input remove a string from the list - konsular - Oct-12-2019

Hello,

i cant quite figure why this code doesnt work Wall

friends = ["Kevin", "Karen", "jim", "Oscar", "Toby"]
variable = input("Delete Kevin? ")
if variable = yes:
    friends.remove("Kevin")
print(friends)

RE: with input remove a string from the list - Yoriz - Oct-12-2019

if variable = yes:

input returns a string, compare to a string of 'yes'

if variable = 'yes':

RE: with input remove a string from the list - buran - Oct-12-2019

= is assignment
== is equality
You need to use the second one

then you will get another error
because at the moment yes is a variable and is not defined. You want it to be string in order to compare with the user input

RE: with input remove a string from the list - konsular - Oct-12-2019

thanks a lot!

especialy your explanation helped my a lot buran!