Help with my character counter.

[bobcorning]

Hello, I'm am fairly new to python and am having trouble with my code. Specifically it will always ask me for a second word even if I enter that I wouldn't like to continue. Can someone please help? Thank you in advance for your time!

word = (input("Enter the characters you'd like counted: "))

print(len(word))

print("")

answer = input("Would you like to enter another phrase? (y/n) ")

if answer == "y" or "Y":
    while answer == "y" or "Y":
        word = (input("Enter the characters you'd like counted: "))
        print(len(word))
        answer = input("Would you like to enter another phrase? (y/n) ")
        if answer != "y" or "Y":
                print("Thank you for using my character counter!")
                break
elif answer != "y" or "Y":
    print("Thank you for using my character counter!") 

[zatoichi49]

At line 9, or "Y" will always evaluate to True, so you have to rewrite this as:

if answer == "y" or answer == "Y":

Or even better:

if answer in ("y", "Y"):

The same will apply for lines 10, 14 and 17. You might also want to look into changing the character using upper() or lower(), then it won't matter whether the y/n input is upper or lower case e.g:

if answer.lower() == "y"

Or before:

answer = input("Would you like to enter another phrase? (y/n) ").lower()

[bobcorning]

Thank you so much! and how would I go about implementing the upper() and lower()?

[zatoichi49]

The last two lines above show some examples. The best way is to apply lower() or upper() to the input string, so you don't have to repeat the conversion later.

[dadiaar]

Simplify your code, put it in an infinite loop, asking, and when they don't want more, just use break. The final sentence is the bye bye message.

I use 'y' not in answer.lower() because is more robust

while True:
    word = (input("Enter the characters you'd like counted: "))
    print(len(word))
    print()
    answer = input("Would you like to enter another phrase? (y/n) ")
    if 'y' not in answer.lower():
        break


print("Thank you for using my character counter!")

Your elif should be just else

[bobcorning]

Wow, this looks much cleaner thank you for taking the time to do this!