with input remove a string from the list

[konsular]

Hello,

i cant quite figure why this code doesnt work

friends = ["Kevin", "Karen", "jim", "Oscar", "Toby"]
variable = input("Delete Kevin? ")
if variable = yes:
    friends.remove("Kevin")
print(friends)

[Yoriz]

if variable = yes:

input returns a string, compare to a string of 'yes'

if variable = 'yes':

[buran]

= is assignment
== is equality
You need to use the second one

then you will get another error
because at the moment yes is a variable and is not defined. You want it to be string in order to compare with the user input

[konsular]

thanks a lot!

especialy your explanation helped my a lot buran!