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Problem with simple if statement

May 6th, 2009

I can't seem to figure out what's wrong with this simple code. I have a user input and if it matches prints out 'That's good', if not prints out 'Too bad' but how can I get the input to ignore being case sensitive?

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ans=raw_input("Are you feeling well today? ")
if ans == "yes":
    print "That's good"
else:
    print "Too bad"
ans=raw_input("Are you feeling well today? ")
if ans == "yes":
    print "That's good"
else:
    print "Too bad"

I want it so if someone enters "YES" it will still print "That's good"

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Re: Problem with simple if statement

May 6th, 2009

"YES" is not the same as "yes".

To rectify, convert the input to lower case. Something like:

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ans=raw_input("Are you feeling well today? ")
if ans.lower() == "yes":
    print "That's good"
else:
    print "Too bad"
ans=raw_input("Are you feeling well today? ")
if ans.lower() == "yes":
    print "That's good"
else:
    print "Too bad"