On 27/11/11 19:02, Hugo Arts wrote:

if name[0] == "m" or name[0] == "f" or name[0] == "b":

or, more idiomatically, you can use the in operator like this:

if name[0] in ("m", "f", "b"):

And you might want to force it to lower case too:

if name[0].lower() in ("m", "f", "b"):

OTOH you might want it to be case sensitive...


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