Help this newbie please!

Question

I tried to change the 9th line like
if y==“No” or “no” :
But it made all the following lines invalid for some reason. Could you explain what was wrong with this?

https://code.sololearn.com/c736R3djX4p3/?ref=app

Answer 1

hi, you can do several things to get this code run properly.

if y == ‘No’ or y == ‘no’

this would cover only 2 different spellings but not ‘NO’. So an other approach is recommended:

if upper(y) == ‘NO’

this covers all variations of spelling.

Answer 2

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/1615887/?ref=app
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/1750833/?ref=app

Answer 3

Thank you! problem solved!