🔒 If proceeding with wrong conditions

[weary wagon]

I’m new to python (and coding as a whole), and I’m making a time left in class thing. First I’m using datetime to get the weekday, but I went ahead and tested some other days. Other numbers aren’t working as well.

weekDay = 1
if weekDay >= 0 and weekDay <=.4:
if weekDay == 0 or 4:
print("Mon/Fri Schedule")
elif weekDay == 1 or 3:
print( "Tues/Thur Schedule")
elif weekDay == 2:
print("Wed Schedule")
else:
print ("There's no school ye goof”)

After running weekDay set to 1, it returns “Mon/Fri Schedule” instead of “Tues/Thur schedule”

Is my syntax wrong?

[covert mauve]

@weary wagon

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!or-gotcha

[covert mauve]

The or-gotcha

When checking if something is equal to one thing or another, you might think that this is possible:

# Incorrect...
if favorite_fruit == 'grapefruit' or 'lemon':
    print("That's a weird favorite fruit to have.")

While this makes sense in English, it may not behave the way you would expect. In Python, you should have complete instructions on both sides of the logical operator.

So, if you want to check if something is equal to one thing or another, there are two common ways:

# Like this...
if favorite_fruit == 'grapefruit' or favorite_fruit == 'lemon':
    print("That's a weird favorite fruit to have.")

# ...or like this.
if favorite_fruit in ('grapefruit', 'lemon'):
    print("That's a weird favorite fruit to have.")

[spiral bloom]

read this

[bold vortex]

You accidentally added a dot

<=.4:
  ^

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And this

[lofty raft]

The quotes seem to also not be properly closed since you used ” instead of "

print ("There's no school ye goof”)
                                 ^

[covert mauve]

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