How to make string check case insensitive?

Question

I\'ve started learning Python recently and as a practise I\'m working on a text-based adventure game. Right now the code is really ineffective as it checks the user responce

Answer 1

if 'power' in choice.lower():

should do (assuming choice is a string). This will be true if choice contains the word power. If you want to check for equality, use == instead of in.

Also, if you want to make sure that you match power only as a whole word (and not as a part of horsepower or powerhouse), then use regular expressions:

import re
if re.search(r'\bpower\b', choice, re.I):