[Solved] My translator does not output what i want it to [closed]

Question

It can only go into one of the if or elif or else branches (and it can never go into elif for : because the if already captures that). You need to add stuff to the output string in all of these cases, probably outside the conditional.

However, you are examining one letter at a time, so : followed by anything will add ? and ) anywhere else in the line will do that too; and ( anywhere will trigger ☹️

A better approach altogether is perhaps

def emojiChanger(word):
    return word.replace(':)', '?').replace(':(', '☹️')

Accepted Answer

It can only go into one of the if or elif or else branches (and it can never go into elif for : because the if already captures that). You need to add stuff to the output string in all of these cases, probably outside the conditional.

However, you are examining one letter at a time, so : followed by anything will add ? and ) anywhere else in the line will do that too; and ( anywhere will trigger ☹️

A better approach altogether is perhaps

def emojiChanger(word):
    return word.replace(':)', '?').replace(':(', '☹️')