Shouldn't this give me an error?!

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#1

Screen Link:

My Code: 

for row in moma:
    if row[5] == "":
        row[5] = "Gender Unknown/Other"
    else:
        row[5] = row[5].title()
    if row[2] == "":
        row[2] == "Nationality Unknown"
    else:
        row[2] = row[2].title()
    print(row[2], row[5])

What I expected to happen:
I expected to get an error due to line 7
row[2] == “Nationality Unknown”
What actually happened:
No error reported.
code run and I got the output

Replace this line with the output/error

American Male
German Male
Brazilian Male
British Male
French Male
American Gender Unknown/Other
Nationality Unknown Gender Unknown/Other
Colombian Male
American Male

#2

Hi,

No, the code will not give an error, as line 7 will evaluate to a boolean expression. In case you want to make sure, wrap the print function around line 7 i.e

print(row[2] == "Nationality Unknown")

Hope it helps!
Cheers!

#3

Hi @veeral27596!

I agree there’s no syntax error, but the string "Nationality Unknown" shouldn’t be assigned to row[2], should it?

#4

hi @otavios.s,

Not really sure, in what context this code is being used. Just wanted to clarify that there are no syntactical errors in the given code.

#5

Yes, some context would be good. Can you post the screen link @4ruleoflaw?

But what a think is if if row[2] == "": is true, then row[2] == "Nationality Unknown" would just return a boolean value False, without anything being assigned…

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#6

Thank you both for your answers.
As to context, the dataset, moma, is a list of lists … that I need to clean up … change the said fields to Title Case … if blank, assign given text …
see sample data below. I get your answer, as to why I shouldn’t get an error.
It was flawed thinking on my part .

moma

[[‘Dress MacLeod from Tartan Sets’, ‘Sarah Charlesworth’, ‘American’, 1947, 2013, ‘Female’, ‘1986’, ‘Prints & Illustrated Books’], [‘Duplicate of plate from folio 11 verso (supplementary suite, plate 4) from ARDICIA’, ‘Pablo Palazuelo’, ‘Spanish’, 1916, 2007, ‘Male’, ‘1978’, ‘Prints & Illustrated Books’], [‘Tailpiece (page 55) from SAGESSE’, ‘Maurice Denis’, ‘French’, 1870, 1943, ‘Male’, ‘1889-1911’, ‘Prints & Illustrated Books’], [‘Headpiece (page 129) from LIVRET DE FOLASTRIES, À JANOT PARISIEN’, ‘Aristide Maillol’, ‘French’, 1861, 1944, ‘Male’, ‘1927-1940’, ‘Prints & Illustrated Books’], [‘97 rue du Bac’, ‘Eugène Atget’, ‘French’, 1857, 1927, ‘Male’, ‘1903’, ‘Photography’], [‘Pictorial ornament (folio 11) from WOODCUTS’, ‘Antonio Frasconi’, ‘American’, 1919, 2013, ‘Male’, ‘1957’, ‘Prints & Illustrated Books’]]

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#7

I mean you shouldn’t get a syntax error, but I do not think your code was supposed to do what you expect from it. Can you post the link fro the mission please?