If and/or Else not working!

[TrijalSaha1]

Question:
<Please help!>
Repl link:
https://replit.com/@TrijalSaha1/WuT-Is-ThE-DaTe-AnD-TiMe

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[TrijalSaha1]

I mean this is the link: https://replit.com/@TrijalSaha1/WuT-Is-ThE-DaTe-AnD-TiMe?v=1

[TrijalSaha1]

Just reply already WindLother

[WindLother]

When you say if AskTimeAndDate == "Y" or "y" or "Yes" or "yes": what you’re effectively saying is:

if (AskTimeAndDate == "Y") or "y" or "Yes" or "yes":

You see the problem?

The correct way to structure this is to make sure you’re comparing AskTimeAndDate to each string you’re interested in. So, the if should be:

if AskTimeAndDate == "Y" or AskTimeAndDate == "y" or AskTimeAndDate == "Yes" or AskTimeAndDate == "yes":

Or being more efficient, just use:

if AskTimeAndDate.lower() in ["y", "yes"]:

The lower() function makes the input lowercase so that it doesn’t matter if the user enters ‘Y’, ‘y’, ‘Yes’, or ‘yes’. It will work for all of them.

[TrijalSaha1]

@WindLother

if AskTimeAndDate.lower() in ["y", "yes"]:

THANKS! Youre the best!

[WindLother]

I always give a full response of what the person is doing wrong and what they should be doing, so my answers tend to take some time.

[UMARismyname]

AskTimeAndDate is not a conventional identifier (variable name) that you’d use here. UpperCamelCase is used for Classes, including Exceptions, while variables conventionally use snake_case, e.g. here I would use want_datetime. Alternatively, camelCase is used often in JS, and that doesn’t cause any confusion with classes unlike UpperCamelCase but it isn’t conventional in Python and Rust.

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here, the difference is unnoticeable, but it’s more performant to compare against sets, so I would do

if want_datetime.lower() in {"y", "yes"}:
  ...