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Im doing a very simple piece of code, and it keeps generating a Syntax error, multiple statements found while compiling a single statement. I cant see what is wrong with my code ! :( , please look at the link as my code typed here may be correct but I cannot see the difference between it and that in the IDLE linked.

I`m attempting to convert the string '10' to an integer so the if statement works.

here is the screen shot. http://www.screencast.com/t/0zItqcn5P6d

age = '10'
converted_age = int(age)
if converted_age == 10:
    print("whats the best way to speak to a monster?")
    print("from as far away as possible!")
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Please paste the actual code that generates the error, and the actual error message, instead of code that works and a screenshot of different code and a vague description of an error message. –  abarnert Oct 15 '13 at 5:43
    
apologies I thought I did paste the same code, that ended up being the issue, I used a slightly different variable name for the if statement without realizing, im a newbie so this caught me out. I wont do that again hopefully. the reason I pasted a code shot instead of typing it was I new there was something there I "couldnt see" hence I screen capped it. –  jitterbug Oct 15 '13 at 11:46
    
The problem with screencaps is that if there's something you can't see, it won't be visible in the screencap either. And the problem with re-typing the code instead of copying and pasting it is that you can't re-type what you can't see. If you just copy the code from your editor, paste it here, select it, and click the "code" button (the {} icon), we're guaranteed to get exactly the code you had problems with (including things like tab/space mixing, non-printing characters, etc.). Anyway, it's not a big deal to not know the site before you ever used it; you'll learn. –  abarnert Oct 15 '13 at 17:45

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age = '10'
converted_age = int(age)
if converted_age == 10:
                      ^ Colon needed here.
    print("whats the best way to speak to a monster?")
    print("from as far away as possible!")

Console session:

>>> age = '10'
converted_age = int(age)
if converted_age == 10:
    print("whats the best way to speak to a monster?")
    print("from as far away as possible!")
whats the best way to speak to a monster?
from as far away as possible!

In your screen shot you use ConvertedAge to store the variable but you compare with converted_age, and this gives an error as covnerted_age is not defined.

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again my apologies, please check the link as the colon is in the link sample with the error message. –  jitterbug Oct 15 '13 at 4:24
    
@jitterbug Then it should run without problems. Try running the same code from a script file instead of console. –  Games Brainiac Oct 15 '13 at 4:26
    
whats the difference between script file and console? i`m new to the IDLE, –  jitterbug Oct 15 '13 at 4:39
    
@jitterbug Well sometimes IDLE messes up because of indentation. A script file is a file that you run once after you write it, in IDLE, you are using a REPL, which is a "Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop", which means that your statements are computer in real time. In a script, you just write it, and run it. –  Games Brainiac Oct 15 '13 at 4:43
    
acknowledge ta! –  jitterbug Oct 15 '13 at 5:17
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You are missing : after your if statement.

Well, I just executed

age = '10'
converted_age = int(age)
if converted_age == 10:
    print("whats the best way to speak to a monster?")
    print("from as far away as possible!")

with python2.7 and 3.0 and it seems ok to me. I can not reproduce it since you just said you have the same syntax above.

What is that orange line? Copy and paste exactly the same code above. Try it out.

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sorry fixed that, the link will show I had that part correct, –  jitterbug Oct 15 '13 at 4:24
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You screen cast shows an error because converted_age is undefined.

you have convertedAge = int(age) and you are trying to compare undefined converted_age.

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hmm, thats what my book says but.. it lists the commands as I typed them. –  jitterbug Oct 15 '13 at 4:28
    
What you have here seems right, but check your screen cast link that you have posted. The two are not identical. –  meghamind Oct 15 '13 at 4:31
    
ohhhhh !!! >.< uhgg. would I see a truck if it hit me in teh face? .. thanks :) –  jitterbug Oct 15 '13 at 4:40

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