Basic if/then help (I'm sorry)

[ThomasL]

My advice: Don´t use IDLE
Use a text editor e.g. Sublime Text, Atom, Notepad++, etc
write your code, save file as a .py file
run that file on the command prompt with python name.py

or
If you really want to evolve your knowledge have a watch here:
Getting Started with JupyterLab (Beginner Level) | SciPy 2018 Tutorial | Jason Grout