[Solved] What is wrong with my code on calculating area of square/rectangle?

Question

There are a couple of problems with your code.

1) The condition

if input in shape:

You never defined a variable “input”. Furthermore, I’m not real sure why you are checking a condition here anyways. If you’re trying to verify that shape is either a rectangle or square consider this code instead:

if shape in ["rectangle", "square"]:

2) The code

"Square, square"

does nothing, and is in fact invalid syntax.

3) The line

print(“The area of the given square is” + area)

is invalid string concatenation for the print function. (note you can concatenate this way OUTSIDE of the print function)
Use commas instead.

print("The area of the given square is", area)

Accepted Answer