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[Reject]

I sincerely apologize for my ignorance, this is my first crack at a programming language, so please try to keep the flaming to a minimum.

Here is what I am working with:

    


here = raw_input(">  ")

response = here.split()


if ("look" or "examine") and ("box" or "bag") in response:

    entrance_dun()


elif "move" and "right" in response:

     room_one()


elif ("left" or "niche") and "move" in response:

     entrance_niche()


else:

     commands(response)

     return entrance()

I think I may be missing something on the IF-Else conditions. If I take out the parenthesis, then anything entered returns the entrance_dun() response. With the parenthesis, I can get the combination: Look Box and Examine Box to work, but the bag side will not.

If I use something like this:

    


here = raw_input(">  ")

response = here.split()


if "look" or "examine" and "box" or "bag" in response:

    entrance_dun()


elif "move" and "right" in response:

     room_one()


elif ("left" or "niche") and "move" in response:

     entrance_niche()


else:

     commands(response)

     return entrance()

Anything I type, or do not type, defaults to the entrance_dun() event.

What am I missing?

Thank you in advance for the help!

[ZekeDragon]

The and and or keywords do not work the way you think they do.

if any(a in response for a in ["look", "examine"]) and any(a in response for a in ["box", "bag"]):

    entrance_dun()

That should work pretty well. It is a bit longer, but it will actually perform what is expected by you. Take a look at the provided link and see if you can reason why you got the results you did due to these keywords. It's logical, but not at all what you intended or thought it would do. :)

[Reject]

Worked perfectly.

So to get the logic down, we are basically comparing something what will always come back as false so that it checks both of the other conditions to see if they are true?