Build a Movie Ticket Booking Calculator - Step 13

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Tell us what’s happening:

I’m working on the Movie Ticket Booking Calculator (Step 13) and I’m stuck. I added an if…else statement for the extra charges logic, and placed print(‘Extra charges:’, extra_charges) inside the else clause as instructed.

Your code so far

base_price = 15
age = 21
seat_type = 'Gold'
show_time = 'Evening'

if age > 17:
    print('User is eligible to book a ticket')

if age >= 21:
    print('User is eligible for Evening shows')
else:
    print('User is not eligible for Evening shows')

is_member = False
is_weekend = False

discount = 0
if is_member and age >= 21:
    discount = 3
    print('User qualifies for membership discount')
else:
    print('User does not qualify for membership discount')
print('Discount:', discount)

extra_charges = 0
if is_weekend or show_time=='Evening':
    extra_charges = 2
# User Editable Region
    print('Extra charges will be applied')
else:
    print('No extra charges will be applied')
print('Extra charges:', extra_charges)

# User Editable Region

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Challenge Information:

Build a Movie Ticket Booking Calculator - Step 13

GitHub Link: freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/workshop-movie-ticket-booking-calculator/6958e2377cacbc46a7f7383a.md at main · freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp · GitHub

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It looks like you have changed the starting code. Please reset this step and try again. Only make changes asked in the instructions to move forward.

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Thank you for your reply.

I understand the message says I changed the starting code, so I tried to reset the step and redo it. I changed the condition back to exactly what you showed.

But unfortunately, it still doesn’t work. The tests still fail with the same errors.

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I found the problem!

The issue was that I assigned a value to extra_charges inside the else block.

I mistakenly thought the variable needed to be reset inside the else clause. But the instructions only asked me to add a print statement inside the else block, not to reassign the variable.

Because the starting code already has extra_charges = 0 before the if statement, assigning it again inside else was unnecessary and broke the tests.

The fix: I removed extra_charges = 0 from inside the else block and kept only the print statement. Now the tests pass!

Thanks for the help!