How to check if a user inputted string meets requirements

February 5, 2022

I’m extremely new to coding/python and I need to check if the user of the program is a member of an organization. This is part of a bigger program but this is what I have so far:

member = str(input("Enter your membership status, y or n: "))
elif member == y:
    print ("You are a member")
elif member == n:
    print("You need a membership")

How do I just check if the user is a member and not print anything and if they’re not a member print that they need a membership?

>Solution :

Use this code:

member = str(input("Enter your membership status, y or n: "))
if member == 'y':
    print ("You are a member")
elif member == 'n':
    print("You need a membership")

since your member variable is having string content, you need to put the values of string in quotes in your if condition member == 'y'.
when checking the condition, first you need to start with if instead of elif.