title: Python codeacademy error
body: <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Instructions:</strong> Write an if statement that verifies that the string has characters.</p>
    
    <p>Add an if statement that checks that <code>len(original)</code> is greater than
    zero. Don't forget the <code>:</code> at the end of the if statement! If the
    string actually has some characters in it, print the user's word.
    Otherwise (i.e. an else: statement), please print "empty". You'll want
    to run your code multiple times, testing an empty string and a string
    with characters. When you're confident your code works, continue to
    the next exercise.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>print 'Welcome to the Pig Latin Translator!'
  
  # Start coding here!
  if len(original) &gt; 0:
      return True
  else len(original) &lt;= 0
      return False
  original = raw_input("Enter a word:")
  
  print original
  print "empty"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm stuck as I keep getting the following error. What am I doing wrong?</p>
  
  <pre><code>File "python", line 6
     else len(original) = 0
             ^
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax
  </code></pre>