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you are missing a ) in the previous line I believe

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OK so im doing what I thought was a simple assignment for one of my classes, but I cant figure out why this isn't working... 

 

It's telling me my syntax is wrong on "total = won + lost"  when I don't think it is?? I'm using python 3 if that matters.  

 

What exactly am I doing wrong here? 
 

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# ask the user for their favorite baseball team name using an input statement
team = input("What is the name of your favorite baseball team? :")
# ask the user for the numbers of games won using eval input
won = eval(input("How many games did they win? :"))
# ask the user for the numbers of games lost using eval input
lost = eval(input("How many games did they lose? :")
# calculate the percentage of games won (figure this out on your own)
total = won + lost
games_won = won / total * 100
# print an output statement similar to the sample run
print(team, "won", games_won, "% of their games")

 

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you are missing a ) in the previous line I believe

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Aren't you missing a ) on the line two lines above "total = won + lost"?

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Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

you are missing a ) in the previous line I believe

LOL you're right. it works perfectly now. haha

 

This is why I hate programming. Soooo easy to make a stupid mistake like that and be looking for hours.

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2 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

LOL you're right. it works perfectly now. haha

 

This is why I hate programming. Soooo easy to make a stupid mistake like that and be looking for hours.

The worst part is that usually when there's a mistake like this, you get a bunch of other unrelated errors instead of it telling you the actual problem :D

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28 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

LOL you're right. it works perfectly now. haha

 

This is why I hate programming. Soooo easy to make a stupid mistake like that and be looking for hours.

This is why most programmers have a good editor. Linters catch these kinds of things for you so you don't have to waste your time on simple typos you missed.

 

For example using PyCharm, it puts an indicator at the end of that line with the message ',' or ')' expected

 

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