why does this line of code not working

Question

name = input("what is your name")
if name = (Colby)
print("hello brother")

Answer 1

comparison operator for equality is ==, or === if you also need to compare types. = is an assignment operator for assigning data on the right to the variable on the left. your code should be the following:

name = input("what is your name?")
if name == "Colby":
print("hello brother")

Answer 2

you should write:
" if name = ("Colby"): "

Answer 3

= is the assignment operator.
you gotta use 'is' for comparison
as in:

if name is ('Colby'):
print(' whaad up col dawg?!')