Python. Multiple but separate words assigned to one variable but code will only read one value. Basic.

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As the title says, I have one variable, "M", and I want it to execute a command if one or the other word was input by the user. These words are "Male" and "male". You will see in the code that I have M = "Male" and "male". The execution will only be done if the user input is "male". I know this is basic but I cannot figure it out. The code is:

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name = input("Hello. Please state your name: ")
    print("Hello " + name + "!")
    gender = input("Please state your gender: ")
    
    M = 'Male' and 'male'
    F = 'Female'
    f = 'female'
    
    if gender == M:
      print("You are a male")
    
    if gender == F or gender == f:
      print("You are a female")

What I have tried:

I have tried having two separate variables for one word each but I want to learn how to assign multiple words to one variable so my code is cleaner and more efficient.

Posted 19-Nov-21 4:58am

Joshua McCarthy

Updated 19-Nov-21 5:34am

Richard MacCutchan

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2021-11-19T05:07:00

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M = 'Male' and 'male'

That statement does not do what you think. The expression X and Y is a logical expression and returns True if X and Y are equal, False otherwise. And since 'Male' and 'male' are not equal, M has the value False. So your program will never recognise a Male gender. The correct code is:

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if gender == 'Male' or gender == 'male':

# or you could use the lower() function

if gender.lower() == 'male':

[edit]
My mistake on the expression above. In reality it will set M to 'male' as described at Built-in Types — Python 3.10.0 documentation[^]. However, the code I suggested should still do what I said.