"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <da...@druid.net> writes: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:59:24 -0800 > Scott David Daniels <scott.dani...@acm.org> wrote: >>> > def yesno(s): >> > s = s.strip().lower() >> > if not s in ("y", "n"):
There was a thread about "is not" recently. Python also allows "not in". if s not in ("y", "n"): > You could also do this to be a little more user friendly: > if not (s and s[0] in ("y", "n")): Or: if s[:1] not in ("y", n"): -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list