Nested if's

Fri Oct 15 11:49:12 EDT 1999

> From: geojempty at aol.com [mailto:geojempty at aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 9:21 AM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Nested if's
>>> I'm brand new to Python, though I chose it for my CGI 
> programming because of
> it's similarity to the language I use at my day-job: the Progress 4GL
>> Enough for intros. I'm having a problem nesting if 
> statements. I'm defining a
> function, and my syntax checks fine, until I try the following:
>> if digit > 0:
> if digit = 5:
> variable = variable + whatever

As it stands, the 2nd line will raise a SyntaxError. It's doing an
assignment, not a comparison. It's an error because assignment is not an
expression in Python. Instead try:
 if digit == 5:
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M.