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Any input I put in will print out “Test 1”, and I don’t know why. This is a bit of code I simplified from a bigger project that is supposed to print out one of many statements based on an input. Can someone please explain?

q = input("Addition or Subtraction?: ") 
if q == "addition" or "a":
    print("Test 1")
elif q == "subtraction" or "s":
    print("Test 2")

Note: This is Python 3.6.1

[EDIT by pep]: Added code brackets, didn’t touch anything else

If I’m not mistaken, code within conditionals (the prints) must be indented for it to work correctly.

if "a":
    print("Test 1")

As “a” is “> 0” it counts as true meaning that something or "a" is always true.

Try to do if q == "addition" or q == "a": instead. Possibly with parenthesis :P

@Yummy_ as far as I can tell it is indented properly?

Thanks, it works now.

Originally fixed by Logal this afternoon.

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