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Python Object-Oriented Python (retired) Inheritance Instance Methods

cody oberholtzer
cody oberholtzer
1,988 Points
Posted by cody oberholtzer
cody oberholtzer
1,988 Points

Why does pressing enter at weapon input(without typing anything), pass 'if weapon_choice in "SAB": ' and selects bow?

Why does pressing enter at weapon input(without typing anything), pass 'if weapon_choice in "SAB": ' and selects bow?

Dongfeng Gu
Dongfeng Gu
12,281 Points
Dongfeng Gu
Dongfeng Gu
12,281 Points

Hi Cody,

Can you describe your question more specifically? I would love to help your but I can't understand what you are saying.

Gu

1 Answer

Chris Howell
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Chris Howell
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 49,610 Points

That is interesting, it does.

Though instead if you change your first conditional statement to a list of letters like I put below, it shouldn't let you pass with an empty string.

def get_weapon(self):
    weapon_choice = input('Weapon ([S]word, [A]xe, [B]ow): ').lower()

    if weapon_choice in ['s','a','b']:
    #  the remaining code here

From Docs

Empty strings are always considered to be a substring of any other string, so "" in "abc" will return True