noob: Spider gives me a syntax error on 'good' code, can't figure out why?

[andrew keefe]

Hello,
I'm learning Python from an online course and could not figure out why my super-simple code had a syntax error.  I finally submitted the code I thought was right as the answer to the problem and it was accepted as correct; however, I could never get Spider to execute it. 


bears = {"Grizzly":"angry", "Brown":"friendly", "Polar":"friendly"}
for bear in bears:
    if bears[bear] == "friendly"
        print("Hello, "+bear+" bear!")
    else:
        print("odd")

The question was to come up with correct 'if' statement in line 3.  I thought I was missing something soooooo basic I couldn't see it, but it is correct.  When I tested it in the console it was evaluating correctly, but in the editor...


  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 710, in runfile
    execfile(filename, namespace)

  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 101, in execfile
    exec(compile(f.read(), filename, 'exec'), namespace)

  File "F:/directory/delete.py", line 9
    if bears[bear] == "friendly"
                                             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


...and the editor shows a syntax error next to the line number in the editor, too.  It's making me kind of crazy.
Thanks for any help.
A

[PmB]

Try

    if bears[bear] == "friendly" :

you're missing : at the end.

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