Python: can't assign to literal

Question

My task is to write a program that asks the user to enter 5 names which it stores in a list. Next, it picks one of these names at random and declares that person as the winn

Answer 1

This is taken from the Python docs:

Identifiers (also referred to as names) are described by the following lexical definitions:

identifier ::=  (letter|"_") (letter | digit | "_")*

letter     ::=  lowercase | uppercase

lowercase  ::=  "a"..."z"

uppercase  ::=  "A"..."Z"

digit      ::=  "0"..."9"

Identifiers are unlimited in length. Case is significant.

That should explain how to name your variables.

Answer 2

Just adding 1 more scenario which may give the same error:

If you try to assign values to multiple variables, then also you will receive same error. For e.g.

In C (and many other languages), this is possible:

int a=2, b=3;

In Python:

a=2, b=5

will give error:

can't assign to literal

EDIT:

As per Arne's comment below, you can do this in Python for single line assignments in a slightly different way: a, b = 2, 5