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John Jonela
John Jonela

Reputation: 31

Simple Python 3.4.3

I'm a beginner (only coding for 14 weeks) and I'm so confused as to what's happening here. All I want to do is ask a simple question and print back another print statement, but no matter what, it always answers "you said yes!". Someone please help me. 

input("This Python program will ask you a series of questions. Are you Ready? ")

if input == "Yes" or "y":
    print("You said yes!")

elif input == "No" or "n":
    print("You said no!")

else:
    print("You said neither.")

Upvotes: 1

Views: 104

Answers (2)

Sébastien Guarnay
Sébastien Guarnay

Reputation: 126

First, you want to store the input in a variable:

 string = input(...

Then, you have to repeat input == "y" for the second of or conditions:

if string == "Yes" or string == "y":

or

if string in ("Yes", "y"):

Upvotes: 1

Michaël Azevedo
Michaël Azevedo

Reputation: 3896

You have multiple issues in your code.

  • First, the string you get from the input method isn't store anywhere. Try printing the input"variable", and you will get : 

    <built-in function input>

    Instead, store the output of the input method in a variable and use this variable instead of input.

  • Second issues, your tests. When you write if input == "Yes" or "y":, I guess you want to test if the string is equal to "Yes" or to "y". But in reality, the test happening can be written :

    if (input == "Yes") or ("y"):

    Your test is then composed of two parts : the first test is correct, but the second one is just test if "y", which is always true since the string "y" is not null.

    You should replace it by :

    if input == "Yes" or input == "y":

    Or even simpler :

    if input in ("Yes", "y"):

To conclude, the final code is simply : 

str = input("This Python program will ask you a series of questions. Are you Ready? ")

if str in ("Yes","y"):
    print("You said yes!")

elif str in ("No","n"):
    print("You said no!")

else:
    print("You said neither.")

Upvotes: 3

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