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problem with user confirmation

Duncan Smith buzzard at urubu.freeserve.co.uk
Thu Sep 18 19:39:33 EDT 2003 
"Matthew" <ruach at chpc.utah.edu> wrote in message
news:ec1162c7.0309181523.2077b7e5 at posting.google.com...
> I am have written a medium sized program and everything works fine
> except for one piece. At a certain point in the program I want to do a
> simple user confirmation, eg Are you sure ? y/n. The problem that I am
> having is that after the user enters an answer and presses enter, the
> program executes the rest of the code regardless of what the user
> response was.
>
> Heres my code:
>
> def confirmAction(self, msg):
> if not msg:
> msg = 'Are you sure y/[n]> '
> print msg
> confirm = sys.stdin.readline()[:-1]
> print 'confirm = \'%s\'' %(confirm)
> if confirm == 'y' or 'Y' or 'Yes' or 'YES' or 'yes':
> return 1
> return 0

[snip]

'Y' evaluates to true.

Maybe try something like:

if confirm in ['y', 'Y', 'Yes', 'YES', 'yes']:
etc.

Duncan
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