Why Python if function merge 2 conditions into one resulting syntax error?

Question

name1 = input("What is your name? \n")
name2 = input("What is their name? \n")

total1 = (name2+name1).count('t') + (name2+name1).count('r') + (name2+name1).count('u') + (name2+name1).count('e')
print("total1", total1)

total2 = (name2+name1).count('l') + (name2+name1).count('o') + (name2+name1).count('v') + (name2+name1).count('e')
print("total2", total2)

if (total1, total2) <= 10 or >= 90:
  print("Your score is", total1,total2, "you go together like coke and mentos.")

RESULT:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/PythonLoveCalculator.py", line 11
    if (total1, total2) <= 10 or >= 90:
                                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

What’s the simple explanation about this Syntax Error????

if (total1, total2) <= 10 or >= 90: needs to be if (total1, total2) <= 10 or (total1, total2) >= 90 — Beatdown, Jun 24 '22 at 10:49
But regardless of the pure syntax error, you cannot compare a tuple of two ints with a single int - `(1, 2) <= 10` does not make sense. — luk2302, Jun 24 '22 at 10:50
Also, what would comparing the tuple `(total1, total2)` to the integer `10` even mean? — Thierry Lathuille, Jun 24 '22 at 10:50
you can't, my comment only addressed the need to be explicit with comparison — Beatdown, Jun 24 '22 at 10:51
Does this answer your question? [How to test multiple variables for equality against a single value?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15112125/how-to-test-multiple-variables-for-equality-against-a-single-value) — Sören, Jun 24 '22 at 11:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '22 at 11:00

SyntaxError occurs because you use >= without a value before it: More proper would be:

if (total1, total2)<=10 or (total1, total2)>=90:
    ...

But then you will get a TypeError because <= not supported between instances of tuple and `int'

It is not clear what are you trying to compare. Maybe you want to do something like this:

if total1<=10 or total2>=90:
    ...

Why Python if function merge 2 conditions into one resulting syntax error?

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