python programming (upper and lowercase variables)

adrian7444

Hi anyone,
i am trying to write a python if statement (i am new to it). i want it to carry out a function if a user enters a value for yes and no. i have it working but it fails if the users types the answer in anything other than lowercase... can anyone help...

jester77

adrian7444 wrote: »

Hi anyone,
i am trying to write a python if statement (i am new to it). i want it to carry out a function if a user enters a value for yes and no. i have it working but it fails if the users types the answer in anything other than lowercase... can anyone help...

Not familiar with python, but I would imagine that there is a toLowerCase function or equivalent that you can use to parse the input string so that you know it will always be in lower case.

adrian7444

thanks i'll look that up

Procasinator

http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#string.lower

adrian7444

i appreciate the link but to be honest i cant follow all that detail.
this is what i am after....

condition is as follows;

if answer=="yes":

**i want the programme to recognise all variables with yes that the user inputs, not just lowercase**

i assume i need to put something around the "yes" to allow this.??????????

jester77

adrian7444 wrote: »

i appreciate the link but to be honest i cant follow all that detail.
this is what i am after....

condition is as follows;

if answer=="yes":

**i want the programme to recognise all variables with yes that the user inputs, not just lowercase**

i assume i need to put something around the "yes" to allow this.??????????

if answer.lower()=="yes":

It doesn't matter what the user inputs, Yes, YES, YeS will all get parsed to yes

adrian7444

thanks so much, really appreciate your help...