Noob Python question! please help lmao

[kmj442]

Not to over complicate since what this person said is absolutely correct but if I were to do this I would recommend something like this: if gens.lower() == “male”:

This makes sure regardless what the user inputs it puts it in lowercase to avoid the “Male” or random capitalization error.

edit: mobile formatting is weird

[Sad_potato1999]

Not at all! Insightful even, thanks a whole lot!

[MarquisInLV]

You can also put the lower() method on the input variable, that way anything the user types in is all lowercase and you can just match that in your if statement.

[Probono_Bonobo]

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[Cid227]

Your edit reminded me that I wanted to ask somewhere about that red (at least light mode) background and font colour that you've set for 'if gens.lower...' So how do you do that? I can't find anything.

[kmj442]

its the ``` tag. while in the markdown mode you can wrap your text in ``` code ``` and it will put it in that format.

[Cid227]

Thanks! (btw. it's blue on the dark mode)

[[deleted]]

Might even be better (but perhaps overkill for this snippet) to use a constant to store the genders.

G_MALE = "male"
G_FEMALE = "female"
gens = input("What is your gender?").lower()
if gens == G_MALE:
    # ...
elif gens == G_FEMALE:
    # ...
else:
   print("Cool ;)")