Proper use of if..elif..else statement

[nick1941]

I'm a retired software engineer who has programmed in a large number of different languages, but I am new to Python. As my first effort at writing a Python script, I started working on a program to computer Fibonacci numbers. My initial code is shown below.

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def Fibonacci():     number = 3     f1 = 1     f2 = 1     if number == 1:         print (f1)         elif number = 2:             print (f2)         else:             n = 3             while n <= number:                 f3 = f1 + f2                 f1 = f2                 f2 = f3                 print (f3)                 n = n + 1

However, I am getting a syntax error at the beginning of the "elif" line. Looking in the Python Language Reference showed by the syntax, but there were no examples I could find of actually using this structure. Could you please tell how to rework that elif statement so I do not get a syntax error? Thanks!

BTW, the code I pasted in was properly indented (I think), but I notice when viewed in the forum, it's all squished to the left.

[scidam]

Essentially, this is an identation error. If/elif/else statements in Python
have the following syntax:

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if statement1:     ... some code elif statement2:     .... some code else:     .... some code

So, you need to fix identations in your code, e.g.

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def Fibonacci():     number = 3     f1 = 1     f2 = 1     if number == 1:         print (f1)     elif number == 2: # (NOTE: = is an assignment operator; == is used for comparison)         print (f2)     else:         n = 3         while n <= number:             f3 = f1 + f2             f1 = f2             f2 = f3             print (f3)             n = n + 1

[nick1941]

Thanks for the help. The "number = 2" was really a typo. I know it should have been "==".