On 01/11/11 09:46, Peter Otten wrote:
Alan Gauld wrote:
Good point, although you could test the first character only...
if choice[0].lower() not in ('prs'): # NB use a single string
What Steven says, plus you may run into an IndexError if choice is the empty
string. If you absolutely want to test against a single string you have to
check the length first.
Hmm, yeah, ok you win :-)
Use the list form, even though it does involve a few more keystrokes and
a lot more screen space. The extra typing to avoid the problems are not
worth it! :-)
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