multi-statement conditions in 'if'?

Question

when I run this code:

def greet(lang):
    if lang == "es" or "espanish":
        print("Hola")
    elif lang == "fr" or "french":
        print("Bonjour")
greet(input ("What is your lang: "))

and when I type in the input fr or french it's always giving me Hola, how I fix it?

Try `lang == "es"` or `lang == "spanish"` – Christian Tapia May 08 '21 at 22:08 — Christian Tapia, May 08 '21 at 22:08

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '21 at 22:08

2

Try :

def greet(lang):
    if lang == "es" or lang=="espanish":
        print("Hola")
    elif lang == "fr" or lang=="french":
        print("Bonjour")
greet(input ("What is your lang: "))

answered May 08 '21 at 22:08

Charles Dupont

995
3
9

1

I think using `in` is more pythonic – DownloadPizza May 08 '21 at 22:09
it's working bro thank you,,, – ALI_lol May 08 '21 at 22:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '21 at 22:08

0

This basically evaluates to (lang == "es") or "espabish" where espanish evaluates to true, so the first is always true. Instead I would do lang in ("es", "espanish")

answered May 08 '21 at 22:08

DownloadPizza

3,307
1
12
27

@ALI_1999 i am actually incredibly blitzed rn, but python is barely simple enough. Anytime – DownloadPizza May 08 '21 at 22:17

multi-statement conditions in 'if'?

2 Answers2