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Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> writes:

> This is a piece of code about comparators :
> j# Assign True or False as appropriate on the lines below!
> ...
> When I tried to run it, this is the error I got : 
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "python", line 1, in <module>
> NameError: name 'j' is not defined

The error information is very precise: in your line 1, you have:

    j# Assign True or False as appropriate on the lines below!

The "j" before the comment ("#...") is what causes the problem.
Likely, you did not want it there.