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I tried writing

age = 22
message = "Eligible" if age>=22 else message = "not eligible"
print(message)

The above code is failing with the error

SyntaxError: cannot assign to conditional expression

Why doesn't this work?

Brian61354270
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Babji
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    The ternary operator operates on _expressions_, not arbitrary statements like assignments. You want to write `message = "Eligible" if age>=22 else "not eligible"`. – Brian61354270 Jun 10 '21 at 14:13

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You only need to get rid off the message = after the else statement.

message = "Eligible" if age>=22 else "not eligible"

Ternary operators are structed like:

variable = [value on_true] if [expression] else [value on_false]
Matheus Delazeri
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