Python If Statements with Strings and Or

Question

I'm having this issue, and here's the code :
If person != "John" or "Cindy":
Print("Who are you ?")

But it keeps printing who are you ? Even if the person is Cindy or john.
Please Help and Thank You

Answer 1

You should split your condition and put it into parentheses, like this:

if (person != "John") or (person != "Cindy"):
print("Who are you ?")

Otherwise the condition will compare person to "John" and take its boolean value and use the or operator on theboolean value of... the "Cindy" string (instead of a similar comparison) -- the result is:

(False/True) or True ==> True

Since every non-empty string is True, the whole condition will *always* be True.

By the way, for longer such cases you might use the syntax like:

if person not in ("Cindy", "John", "Marsha", "Kevin", "Peter", "Ronnie"):
print("Who are you?")

Answer 2

Nvm fixed it

Answer 3

But that does'nt work, I just tried it.