How to allow two results when searching

Question

I am making a dictionary/translator but I want to let the user write, 'hello' and 'Hello' and still receive the result 'Ronne'.

print ("English to Exrian Dictionary")
search = input("Enter the word you would like to translate: ")

if search == "Hello":
    print ("Ronne")
elif search == "Bye":
    print ("Zio")
else:
    print ("No matches were found for '" + search + "'")

For the sake of completeness, in addition to the `.lower()` approach, you could also do something like `if search in ['Hello','hello']:` -- in this case, it seems less-clear approach than using `.lower()`, but it is still an option to be aware of. — jedwards, Jul 31 '16 at 09:39
Using `if...elif...` is ok for a couple of words, but if you want to handle a larger number of words you should use a [dictionary](https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries). — PM 2Ring, Jul 31 '16 at 09:42

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 31 '16 at 09:33

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To ignore the case, just convert your search to lowercase

search = search.lower()
if search == "hello":
    print ("Ronne")

answered Jul 31 '16 at 09:33

Julien Spronck

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i want it to allow the user to write "Hello" or "hello" to get the same answer. – Michael Thin Jul 31 '16 at 11:37
@MichaelThin that's exactly what this will do. Just try it. – Julien Spronck Jul 31 '16 at 11:56
but i want the users input. like this. search = input("example:").lower() – Michael Thin Jul 31 '16 at 11:59
i tried that it dont work. do i need to add input part? – Michael Thin Jul 31 '16 at 11:59
Well, yes this code comes after the line `search = input(...)`. If you use `search = input(...).lower()`, you already converted it to lowercase, no need to do it again. – Julien Spronck Jul 31 '16 at 12:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 31 '16 at 09:33

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You could just convert your input to lowercase, and compare to "hello", like this:

search = input("Enter the word you would like to translate: ").lower()

if search == "hello":
    print("Ronne")

answered Jul 31 '16 at 09:33

Aurora0001

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How to allow two results when searching

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