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Verifying Variables Content
brianmen

19 Jun, 2009 - 07:54 AM
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Hello... So I am making a program where I want people to vote on something. I have them answer a question with either an A or a B. I do this using the

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inputtedanswer=raw_input("This is the question, now you should answer A or B")


method. I want to make it so that only answers that are A or B (or even a or b lowercase) can be accepted as answers and not anything else. Is there a way I can do this? Thanks for your help.

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19 Jun, 2009 - 08:08 AM
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You can try this format-
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z=raw_input("Enter Answer:")
if z=="A" or z=="a":
    print "AAA"

elif z=="B" or z=="b":
    print "BBB"
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19 Jun, 2009 - 09:12 AM
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another way to write the same thing:

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line = raw_input("Enter Answer:")
if line in ("A", "b"):
    print "AAA"
elif line in ("B", "b"):
    print "BBB"


and the way I would write it:
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def enter_ans(str):
    while True:
        line = raw_input(str).lower()
        if line == "a":
            return "AAA"
        elif line == "b":
            return "BBB"
        else:
            print "Error: Unknown answer: " + line
            continue
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20 Jun, 2009 - 10:49 AM
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Thanks, I'll try these out!!!
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