Question

I’m learning Python from an online tutorial. My problem is that when I run the script, no matter what I input the response I get is the if go == “kitchen”…

def go_to():
    go = raw_input("Go to? ")

    if go == Kitchen or breakfast:
         print "You rumble down stairs and into the kitchen. Your mom has left some microwaved waffles on the table for you. Your big boy step sits by the counter."
    elif go == "back to bed" or "back to sleep" or bed or sleep:
        print "You hit snooze and roll over."
    elif go == "bathroom" or "toilet" or "potty" or "pee" or "poop" or "take a sh*t" or "take a dump" or "drop a load":
        print "You make a stop at the head first."
        go_to()
    else:
        print "That is not a command I understand."
        go_to()
go_to()

Answer 1

As Ignacio says, you need a new tutorial.

The expression go == Kitchen or breakfast will be true if either of the subexpressions go == Kitchen or breakfast evaluate to True. This will happen if go evaluates to the same object as Kitchen, or their type defines an __eq__ method which defines equality for them, or it will be the case if breakfast is an object that is not None.

The way to check if a variable contains a value in a list is:

if go in (Kitchen, breakfast):
   # do something

Note also that your code doesn’t show where the variables Kitchen and breakfast are defined, and your indentation is incorrect.