Kun wrote: > I am trying to make an if-statement that will not do anything and print > 'nothing entered' if there is nothing entered in a form. I have the > following code that does that, however, now even if I enter something
Yes, but did you enter everything? > into the form, the code still outputs 'nothing entered'. The logic doesn't imply "nothing", it implies "not everything". The else clause will execute if ANY item is not enetered. > This violates > the if statement and I am wondering what I did wrong. > > if form.has_key("delete_id") and form["delete_id"].value != "" and > form.has_key("delete_date") and form["delete_date"].value != "" and > form.has_key("delete_purchasetype") and > form["delete_purchasetype"].value != "" and form.has_key("delete_price") > and form["delete_price"].value != "" and form.has_key("delete_comment") > and form["delete_comment"].value != "": > delete_id=form['delete_id'].value > delete_date=form['delete_date'].value > delete_purchasetype=form['delete_purchasetype'].value > delete_price=form['delete_price'].value > delete_comment=form['delete_comment'].value > else: > print "ERROR: Nothing entered!" > raise Exception -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list