I can't seem to get user input to work in my if, elif, else loop in Python

Question

So I am working on a program that essentially asks a person if they want to hear a joke; if they say yes, then it will proceed to tell a joke; if they say no, or stop/quit the program will stop; and if they don't say yes or no, it will give them an error message. However, the program seems to just want to proceed on with the joke no matter what they input. I will produce an example of the code.

import sys

print("Want to hear a joke?")
answer = input()
if answer == "Yes" or "yes" or "y":
   print("Here is a joke")
elif answer == "No" or "no" or "n":
   sys.exit("Bye!")
else:
   print("Please input a different response.")

you're running `answer == ('yes' or 'yes' or ...)`, which boils down to `answer == true` — Marc B, Sep 05 '14 at 21:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '14 at 21:37

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This is NOT how you do a conditional

if answer == "Yes" or "yes" or "y": # this will always evaluate to true

do this instead

if answer in ["Yes" ,"yes" , "y"]:
      print "Here is a joke"

answered Sep 05 '14 at 21:37

jramirez

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Thanks so much, that worked out for me. Then I found out input() caused an error message that said Answer wasn't defined, so I had to use raw_input(). But nonetheless I got it to work. Thanks again. – Hunter Watkins Sep 05 '14 at 21:52

I can't seem to get user input to work in my if, elif, else loop in Python

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