Is there a way to clean a variable for if patterns in python?

Question

Ok, so my problem is that basically I'm learning how to use APIs and there's this problem keeping me behind. The problem is that although I keep putting the new string for it to recognize it and start my elif, it keeps giving me the result as if I assigned my variable with the first string. Here's the code, hope you can help me with this.

import requests
import json

print('Welcome to the quote app')

nombre = input('Whats your name? : ')
opcion = ''

print('\n See all of our options\n')
print('Random Quote')
print('Quote Of the Day')

opcion = input('Select an option: ')

respuesta = opcion.lower()
del(opcion)

if respuesta == 'random quote' or 'randomquote' or 'random quote ':

#The  GET for this answer is inside here

elif respuesta == 'quote of the day ' or 'quoteoftheday' or 'quote of the day ':

#The GET for this answer is inside here


#Terminal answer

Welcome to the quote app
Whats your name? : milton

 See all of our options

Random Quote
Quote Of the Day
Select an option: quote of the day
milton ,Your random quote of the day is:  Your fears, your critics, your heroes, your villains: They are fictions you perceive as reality. Choose to see through them. Choose to let them go.
Said by:  Isaac Lidsky

Does this answer your question? [Why does \`a == x or y or z\` always evaluate to True?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20002503/why-does-a-x-or-y-or-z-always-evaluate-to-true) — mangupt, May 01 '21 at 06:27
You should have extracted a [mcve] from your code. It would have told you that JSON, API, VS Code and `python-requests` are completely irrelevant. Also, above code isn't valid Python, so people here can't even try it out. Overall, it's not a helpful question. As a new user, please take the [tour] and read [ask]. — Ulrich Eckhardt, May 01 '21 at 06:52

Gustavo Bordin · Answer 1 · 2021-05-01T06:57:03.683

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Your if and elif statements are wrong, you should do:

if respuesta == 'random quote' or respuesta == 'randomquote' or respuesta == 'random quote ':
#The  GET for this answer is inside here


elif respuesta == 'quote of the day ' or  respuesta == 'quoteoftheday' or respuesta == 'quote of the day ':
#The GET for this answer is inside here

You can also improve it by doing:

if respuesta in ['random quote', 'randomquote', 'random quote ']:
#The  GET for this answer is inside here
elif respuesta in ['quote of the day', 'quoteoftheday', 'quote of the day ']:
#The  GET for this answer is inside here

Online example

edited May 01 '21 at 06:57

answered May 01 '21 at 06:26

Gustavo Bordin

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You're so right! Thank you a lot, you just saved my midterm note. – itsRainbowDash May 01 '21 at 07:10
I'm glad to help you :) Please consider accepting my answer as the right one if it helped you – Gustavo Bordin May 03 '21 at 06:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 01 '21 at 06:29

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Correct if and elif statements:

if respuesta in ('random quote', 'randomquote', 'random quote '):
    #The  GET for this answer is inside here
elif respuesta in ('quote of the day ', 'quoteoftheday', 'quote of the day '):
    #The GET for this answer is inside here

answered May 01 '21 at 06:29

mangupt

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You are totally right, thank you so much! – itsRainbowDash May 01 '21 at 07:11

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