# Won't acknowledge ':'

**URL:** <https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Created:** [September 22, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258 "2019-09-22T13:48:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![SnaZZy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@SnaZZy\_L](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/SnaZZy_L)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258/1 "2019-09-22T13:48:17Z")

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In the backwoods forest on level ‘Forest Fire Dancing’, on one of the lines for a nested if statement it keeps saying code error, must have ‘:’. but i made sure it has that certain punctuation and even after i attempted multiple times while it was written on scree, it continued to not be able to read it and kept saying i need it even though it was there,

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**Author:** ![ducky](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/ducky/32/9364_2.png) [@ducky](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/ducky)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258/2 "2019-09-22T15:01:10Z")

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Hello, I think that another part of your code has a problem and the computer is getting all angry at something else. You should post your code so we can look at it and attempt to fix the problem, as it may be just a stray parenthesis!

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**Author:** ![MunkeyShynes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/munkeyshynes/32/9277_2.png) [@MunkeyShynes](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/MunkeyShynes)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258/3 "2019-09-22T15:02:04Z")

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Please post a screen shot of your code with the error.

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**Author:** ![SnaZZy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@SnaZZy\_L](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/SnaZZy_L)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258/4 "2019-09-22T20:33:55Z")

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i deleted the whole thing like all the code and while rewriting, before i was even to the point and before i had it even written , it was saying that i didn’t have a ‘:’ for that certain line, when that line wasn’t even written yet. i can rewrite all the code and send a screenshot if need. even when i have all the code written, even the correct ones dont do anything and the character doesn’t move at all. i think it is a glitch or bug in just that level. let me go back to that level and rewrite everything again so i can get the screenshot and send it.

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**Author:** ![SnaZZy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@SnaZZy\_L](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/SnaZZy_L)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258/5 "2019-09-22T20:38:58Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/codecombat/original/2X/d/deb6ef6043cbea6cfde984e26d0de289e165aed8.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![SnaZZy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@SnaZZy\_L](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/SnaZZy_L)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258/6 "2019-09-22T20:40:01Z")

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not even the correct coding makes the character move or anything.

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**Author:** ![MunkeyShynes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/munkeyshynes/32/9277_2.png) [@MunkeyShynes](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/MunkeyShynes)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258/7 "2019-09-22T22:02:08Z")

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line 17 is not necessary. Just delete it and your code will work fine.  
Line 4 states:

```python
if evilstone:

```

Line 15 states:

```python
else:

```

So your code doesn’t need what you have for line 17.

```python
if evilstone:
    do this
else: # meaning that there is no evilstone
    do that

```

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**Author:** ![SnaZZy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@SnaZZy\_L](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/SnaZZy_L)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258/8 "2019-09-22T22:20:18Z")

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my problem isnt having the code wrong its that none of the code works because the level lets me write and all that but it doesnt actually act on the codes i put in. also, no matter what i change line 17 to, it still tells me the same error everytime.

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**Author:** ![SnaZZy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@SnaZZy\_L](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/SnaZZy_L)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258/9 "2019-09-22T22:20:50Z")

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and im not saying that my code is perfect because there probably is some errors in there

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**Author:** ![SnaZZy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@SnaZZy\_L](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/SnaZZy_L)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258/10 "2019-09-22T22:23:16Z")

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oh wait nevermind. your help worked. Thankyou so much for your help

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**Author:** ![xantar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/xantar/32/8881_2.png) [@xantar](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/xantar)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/wont-acknowledge/19258/11 "2019-09-23T15:22:35Z")

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The mistake here is that you used no instead of not.