Ternary operator problem in tutorial

Python
1

hello everyone,

I did the following exercise as in the tutorial but it gave an error.

age=22
message = “eligible” if age >= 18 else message = “not eligible”
print(message)

PS E:\python tut\Helloworld> & C:/Users/nzd.digital/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python311/python.exe “e:/python tut/Helloworld/app.py”
File “e:\python tut\Helloworld\app.py”, line 2
message = “eligible” if age >= 18 else message = “not eligible”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Maybe you meant ‘==’ or ‘:=’ instead of ‘=’?
PS E:\python tut\Helloworld>

where the problem is?

2

You’re trying to define the massage variable in the expression after ‘else’,
that’s why throws you an error.

Massage variable will take the result from the expression.
massage = “Eligible” if age >= 18 else “Not Eligible”

3

Thank you so much :+1: