Question

Code runs. But for some reason when I am prompted to enter Sam, I get back “Your name isn’t Sam.”

name = ["Sam"]
print ("What is your name?")
name_choice = input("Type Here: ")

if name == "Sam":
   print ("Your name is Sam")
else:
   print ("Your name isn't Sam")

I am working in Python 3.2. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

I think you should be using name_choice here instead of name

if name == "Sam":
    print ("Your name is Sam")

What is the name variable meant for anyway?

A good tip when something like this happens is to print the things you are comparing right before the if

eg

print ("name ==", name)
if name == "Sam":
    print ("Your name is Sam")

This would have made it apparent that you are comparing a list to a string