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if and elif statements not working in Python?

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def town():
 print ("You stand in the middle of Coffeington while you descide what"
 " to do next, you have herd rumor of the Coffeington Caves that run"
 "under the city, would you like to check them out?")
 answer = input()
 if answer == ("yes") or ("Yes") or ("y"):
 print("You set out for the Coffeington Caves")
 elif answer == ("no") or ("No") or ("n"):
 print("Oh...well im sure you can find something else to do")
 else:
 print("You just stand there")
town()

I don't know why the "elif" or "else" part of the "if statment" wont trigger. what ends up happening is that regardless of what answer you put in input it will always print out "you set out for the Coffeington Caves". whats supposed to happen is if you say "no" it should just end?

posted Aug 8, 2013 by Sonu Jindal

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if answer == ("yes") or ("Yes") or ("y"):

This doesn't do what you think it does. First it compares answer to "yes". Then it takes the result of that and OR's it with "Yes". Then it takes the result of that and OR's it with "y". Finally it takes the bool of the result and decides whether to execute the if-body. Since those OR's will always be true, it always executes the if-body, and never the elif or else body.

Fix the expression to what you presumably meant:

if answer == "yes" or answer == "Yes" or answer == "y":
Or less typing:    
if answer in ("yes", "Yes", "y"):
answer Aug 8, 2013 by Meenal Mishra
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