printing a statement based on a user input python

Question

I am ask the user to specify air or car and then the program should print "book air travel" if the user says air and "book a car or hotel" if the user says car. But it seems when I put car it is still printing "book air travel". What am I missing?

travel=raw_input("What type of travel is required Air or Car")
if travel == "Air" or "air":
    print "book air travel"
elif travel== "Car" or "car":
    print "book a car or hotel"

It is amazing how many times this question gets asked. – Padraic Cunningham Mar 24 '15 at 00:18 — Padraic Cunningham, Mar 24 '15 at 00:18
It reminded me of sth :) – JuniorCompressor Mar 24 '15 at 00:21 — JuniorCompressor, Mar 24 '15 at 00:21

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '15 at 00:20

Do it like this

travel=raw_input("What type of travel is required Air or Car").lower()
if travel == "air":
    print "book air travel"
elif travel== "car":
    print "book a car or hotel"

Make it lower case from the start to avoid having multiple checks.

printing a statement based on a user input python

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