why does my program not print line 9 and instead prints line 7?

Question

If created this program to only print when the condition is equivalent to the variable age which should've resulted in the final statement to be printed however once I ran the program it instead printed the second last statement which prints out close instead of perfect. I've to figure it out but I couldn't

age = 7
if age == 9:
    print('too old')
elif age == 5:
    print('too young')
elif age == 6 or 8:
    print('close')
elif age == 7:
    print('yes, perfect')

Since `8` is true, `age == 6 or 8` is true. Perhaps you meant `age == 6 or age == 8`? — David Schwartz, Apr 14 '20 at 20:24
`age == 6 or 8` is equivalent to `(age == 6) or (8)`, so it returns `True`. Change it to `age == 6 or age == 8` — maciek97x, Apr 14 '20 at 20:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 14 '20 at 20:24

0

8 is truthy.

try this:

age = 7
if age == 9:
    print('too old')
elif age == 5:
    print('too young')
elif age == 6 or age == 8:
    print('close')
elif age == 7:
    print('yes, perfect')

answered Apr 14 '20 at 20:24

James Powis

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 14 '20 at 20:26

0

you must repeat the condition when using "or"

age = 7
if age ==9:
    print('too old')
elif age ==5:
    print('too young')
elif age == 6 or age == 8:
    print('close')
elif age==7:
    print('yes, perfect')

answered Apr 14 '20 at 20:26

Ro0t

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8

if the solution is correct, accept it – Ro0t Apr 15 '20 at 08:33

why does my program not print line 9 and instead prints line 7?

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