🔒 how do i make lines 3 and 5 shorter?

[crisp roost]

i am doing a task on a website and its interpeter doesnt allow lines to be longer than 121 characters long, so how can i shorten them?

x = input()

if ('giant' in x or 'Giant' in x or 'GIANT' in x) and ('lilliput' not in x or 'Lilliput' not in x or 'LILLIPUT' not in x):
    print("In the land of giants.")
elif ('lilliput' in x or 'Lilliput' in x or 'LILLIPUT' in x) and ('giant' not in x or 'Giant' not in x or 'GIANT' not in x):
    print("In the land of the Lilliput.")
else:
    print("I'm completely confused.")

[versed tundra]

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[snow bough]

This code is a bit too long to stay within the 121-character limit; use the .lower() for simplifying checks on various capitalizations, and break up long conditions using helper variables. Here is the refactored version of the above code:

`x = input().lower()

is_giant = 'giant' in x
is_lilliput = 'lilliput' in x

if is_giant and not is_lilliput:
print("In the land of giants.")
elif is_lilliput and not is_giant:
print("In the land of the Lilliput.")
else:
print("I'm completely confused.")`

[digital magnet]

The conditions here seem redundant. If giant is in x, then that already implies lilliput is not in x (as giant != lilliput), so the other check is not needed.

[trim mulch]

giantlilliput

?

Do mind actually

[digital magnet]

*assuming giant and lilliput can't be in the same input.

in that case, the condition here is just verifying for different casings of x, so you could simplify it with x.lower()

[crisp roost]

string methods dont work

[trim mulch]

?

[crisp roost]

but i found myself using string variavbles

and it works

[crisp roost]

x.lower()

[trim mulch]

Issue is, why it doesn't work?

[digital magnet]

Does the website perhaps not allow x.lower() or does it straight up error? If this is for a homework or from a course or something, I guess it not being allowed is understandable.

[crisp roost]

does not allow

[trim mulch]

Ah

[crisp roost]

now i have a different problem, since if there are both giant and lilliput it should print I'm completely confused. but it prints In the land of giants. instead

x = input()

ygiant = ('giant' in x or 'Giant' in x or 'GIANT' in x)
nlilliput = ('lilliput' not in x or 'Lilliput' not in x or 'LILLIPUT' not in x)

ngiant = ('giant' not in x or 'Giant' not in x or 'GIANT' not in x)
ylilliput = ('lilliput' in x or 'Lilliput' in x or 'LILLIPUT' in x)

if ygiant and nlilliput:
    print("In the land of giants.")
elif ylilliput and ngiant:
    print("In the land of the Lilliput.")
elif ygiant and ylilliput:
    print("I'm completely confused.")
else:
    print("I'm completely confused.")```

[trim mulch]

Can we have the question instead?

The actual task questions

[crisp roost]

If the string contains lilliput, Lilliput or LILLIPUT in any case, output In the land of Lilliput.

If it has giant, Giant or GIANT, output In the land of giants.

If the string contains both or none of them, output: I'm completely confused.

[trim mulch]

I got 349 with no lower, upper and capitalize

[digital magnet]

You're checking for whether "A" is not in x or if "a" is not in x.
However, if you give A as an input, then that would be True. "A" not in x is false, sure, but "a" not in x is True so that would make it true.

So you'd want and rather than just or since and would indeed return false (as not all parts of the condition are true)

[versed tundra]

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🔒 how do i make lines 3 and 5 shorter?