Why is the output “male” and not “female”?

Question

Hello. The answer is probably very obvious but I don’t get it.
Why does it output “Male” here? Isn’t the code supposed to proceed to the next “else”?

https://code.sololearn.com/cP13S17hRQ1c/?ref=app

Answer 1

Hamsdino
You must explicitly express your comparison to get a a correct boolean result.

You did not compare the "m" against sex, so it elevated as True in your first condition, thus printing Male

sex = "F"
if (sex == "M" or sex =="m"):
print("Male")
else:
print("Female")

Answer 2

Rik Wittkopp are you advising to fix the code with: if (sex == ("M" or "m")):?

That would fail. Due to short circuit logic, that reduces to: if (sex == ("M")): and would not work as intended when sex = "m".

Better advice would be:
if sex in ("M", "m"):

Answer 3

Hamsdino
You could also use paranthesis to group your conditions together for the single comparison

sex = "F"
if (sex == ("M" or "m")):
print("Male")
else:
print("Female")

Answer 4

Python interprets everything except 0 as True.

I think the reason is because it exists

Answer 5

@Hamsdino, any non empty string is evaluated to True, only empty string is considered False. See following page for more examples: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/truthy-and-falsy-values-in-JUMP_LINK__&&__python__&&__JUMP_LINK/

Answer 6

=> to get familiar with True, False, as well as with truthy and falsy values or expressions, i recommend to read:

Truthy and Falsy Values in Python: A Detailed Introduction:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/truthy-and-falsy-values-in-python/

in short: all of them are falsy values:

data structures and types:
empty lists, tuples, dictionaries, sets, strings, bytes, ranges

numbers:
zero of integers, floats, complex

objects
...

Answer 7

Rik Wittkopp Thanks that makes sense!
Do you know why a single letter is interpreted as True? Does it get interpreted as
“m” == “m”?

Answer 8

Or you can do it like this

https://code.sololearn.com/c99n8R44NLs6/?ref=app

Answer 9

Phyton Abdul Salam Thanks!
Maczeta and Lothar Thanks, very useful link!

Answer 10

sex = input()
print("Male") if sex in ("M", "m") else print ("Female")

Answer 11

cause coding ain't about genders

Answer 12

Brian Thanks for fixing that second option. This one works. So there is no way to use “or” in this case?

Answer 13

LIMO lmao it was just a code challenge

Answer 14

Uwltoamym Smart advice