Question

input("Would you like to read: comedy, political, philisophical, or tragedy?")

a = "comedy"
b = "political"
c = "philisophical"
d = "tragedy"

if a:
    input("Would you like the author's nationality to be: English or French?")
    e = "French"
    d = "English"
    if e:
        print("Tartuffe")
    elif d:
        print("Taming of the Shrew")

When I run the program is just defaults to comedy and then to Tartuffe.
How do I get it to recognize the difference genres in the string?

Answer 1

you need to store the input and then compare it to what you want, for example:

a = "comedy"
b = "political"
c = "philisophical"
d = "tragedy"

user_input = input("Would you like to read: comedy, political, philisophical, or tragedy?")

if user_input == a:
    user_input = input("Would you like the author's nationality to be: English or French?")

    if user_input == e:
        #do more stuff

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A better way to do this (in my opinion) would be to do something like:

def comedy():
    print("comedy")

def political():
    print("political")

def philisophical():
    print("philisophical")

def tragedy():
    print("tragedy")

types = {"comedy":comedy,
         "political":political,
         "philisophical":philisophical,
         "tragedy":tragedy
        }

user_input = input()

types[user_input]()

because its easier to manage and read the different inputs.