Functions and if - else in python. Mutliple conditions. Codeacademy

Question

Write a function, shut_down, that takes one parameter (you can use anything you like; in this case, we\'d use s for string).

The shut_down func

Answer 1

This:

s == "Yes" or "yes" or "YES"

is equivalent to this:

(s == "Yes") or ("yes") or ("YES")

Which will always return True, since a non-empty string is True.

Instead, you want to compare s with each string individually, like so:

(s == "Yes") or (s == "yes") or (s == "YES")  # brackets just for clarification

It should end up like this:

def shut_down(s):
    if s == "Yes" or s == "yes" or s == "YES":
        return "Shutting down..."
    elif s == "No" or s == "no" or s == "NO":
        return "Shutdown aborted!"
    else:
        return "Sorry, I didn't understand you."