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#1

Hello everyone! Hope you’re having a great day!

I was working on this little project before I ran into a problem. I was working on an idea logger so I can write down ideas and the program would save it into a list so I can add ideas and read previous ones. I was working on this if statement but i’m running into a problem. Whenever I run the program, it asks me if I have any ideas (as expected). But, when I write “Yes” into the program, it shows me the “Thats ok! Make sure to keep working hard though!”. I tried putting the if “Yes” first but then even when i tell the program “No” it keeps asking me for the idea. Could someone please help me? Thank you!askidea console

#2

It’s how you’re writing the conditionals.

In python you have to be explicit about every condition. Your first condition is evaluating like this:

print(False or "no")
#output "no"

Once you put the or, it doesn’t remember or take for granted anything that came before it, so you have to compare lower-case “no” once more.

print(False or "bread")
# "bread"
print(True or "bread")
# True
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#3

So then how would I compare “no” once more? Would I have to create another if statement for that “no” and “yes”?

#4

Both sides of the or have to be individual comparison statements. Right now you have one side is a comparison, and the other is just a plain string (not a comparison).

print(1 > 1 or 2 > 1)
#True

print(1 > 1 or 2 < 1)
#False


#yours at the moment looks like
print(1 > 1 or "word")
# word


print(1 > 1 or "word"=="werd")
#False

Etc. you can play around in the terminal with this type of idea to get a picture of what’s possible and what’s not.

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#5

Thank you so much! I fixed the or statement and it worked! :smiley:

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