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Asked: 2026-05-26T18:04:36+00:00

I’m making sort of a Q&A script in python. It gets raw_input, and sets

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I’m making sort of a Q&A script in python. It gets raw_input, and sets it as theQuestion. I tried if 'var1' and 'var2' in theQuestion:, but it looks for either string, not both. Is there a way I can make this work in one ‘if’ statement? (not ‘if x: if y: then z).

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  1. Editorial Team

    and is a logical AND, not a natural-language one. Therefore, your code gets interpreted as:

    'var1' and 'var2' in theQuestion
True   and 'var2' in theQuestion # Since bool('var1') == True
           'var2' in theQuestion

    You want to connect the two tests with a logical AND:

    if 'var1' in theQuestion and 'var2' in theQuestion:

    Alternatively, for large numbers of tests:

    if all(k in theQuestion for k in ('var1', 'var2')):
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