Can't figure out the mistake here,

Question

I'm new to this and trying to complete a workshop. Keeps giving the "2nd department" as the answer and is frustrating me. It should give the answer as "1st Department" for CP and/or Down.

d1 = ["CP", "Down", "SMA", "Bone Fracture", "Hemiplegia"]
patient =input("What's your complaint? = ")
data = True

for patient in d1:
    if patient == "SMA" or "Bone Fracture" or "Hemiplegia":
        data = False
        break

if data:
    print("1st Department")
else:
    print("2nd Department")

This is so common, python could be smarter and throw a warning when a user implicitly tests truthiness of a string literal — Chris_Rands, Jul 05 '21 at 17:14
Nothing wrong in typing, 0 red underlined words. Just keeps giving the same answer — romancedawn, Jul 05 '21 at 17:17
I removed the "for" loop and edit the code as " if patient in ("SMA", "Bone Fracture", "Hemiplegia"): data = False" now it's working. — romancedawn, Jul 05 '21 at 18:05

zr0gravity7 · Answer 1 · 2021-07-05T17:22:01.670

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Change your if condition to:

if patient in ["SMA", "Bone Fracture", "Hemiplegia"]:

You can also probably simplify the code to:

d1 = ["CP", "Down", "SMA", "Bone Fracture", "Hemiplegia"]
patient =input("What's your complaint? = ")
data = patient in d1

if data:
    print("1st Department")
else:
    print("2nd Department")

edited Jul 05 '21 at 17:22

answered Jul 05 '21 at 17:13

zr0gravity7

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Thanks for the advice but sadly did not work – romancedawn Jul 05 '21 at 17:15
See edit for revised code. – zr0gravity7 Jul 05 '21 at 17:22

Can't figure out the mistake here,

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