Question

I’m trying to figure out how to compare two address fields I am pulling from two XML sources. One returns the address in this format:

123 Main St

and the other:

123 MAIN ST

I tried doing something like this:

x = address1  <---first address format i states
y = address2   <---and the second

if x.upper() == y.upper():
   print "correct"
else:
   print "incorrect"

This does not seem to work, I’m assuming it is because I am trying to set the entire string of the address to uppercase but that wont work with a number. My question is how would I compare two addresses that are returned in different formats, a strait if x = y comparison is not working to compare the addresses.

Answer 1

You can convert both addresses in lower case with .lower() and subsequently compare them.

Lower or Upper case are irrelevant, probably the issue is that you were using the operator “=” instead of “==” causing an assignment.

For example:

x = '123 Main St'
y = '123 MAIN ST'

new_x = x.lower()
new_y = y.lower()



if new_x == new_y :
   print "correct"
else:
   print "incorrect"