Why am I getting the output as "hello" why not "bey" because "a" value is not equal to either "A" or "a"

Question

a = "H"
if a == "A" or "a":
print("hello")
else:
print("bey")

Answer 1

You need to use;
if a == "A" or a == "a":

or "a" will return a truthy result as a non-empty string is truthy. You need to have an expression on each side of an 'or'/'and' that can be evaluated.

Answer 2

because you must write:

if a == "A" or a == "a":

alternativaly you could write too:

if a in "Aa":