what statements do I use so my code knows red, RED, Red, rEd, or regardless of any capitalized/lowercase letter the program knows what red is are the same?

Question

what statements do I use so my code knows red, RED, Red, rEd, or regardless of any capitalized letter the program knows what red is are the same?

print("Menu of Colors, Blue, Red, Yellow")

first_color = input("pick first color:")

second_color = input("pick second color:")

if(first_color.lower() ==("red").lower())

if(first_color.upper() ==("red").upper())

if (first_color == "red" and second_color == "yellow") or (first_color == "yellow" and second_color == "red"):

print("orange")

elif (first_color == "blue" and second_color == "red") or (first_color == "red" and second_color == "yellow"):

print("purple")

elif (first_color == "blue" and second_color == "yellow") or (first_color == "yellow" and second_color == "blue"):

print("green")

else:

print("invalid color")

Answer 1

Simply reassign first_color and second_color to their lower case versions.

You can do this with these statements.

print("Menu of Colors, Blue, Red, Yellow")

first_color = first_color.lower()

second_color = second_color.lower()

Once you've done this, you can check if their value is equal to whatever color in lower case that you're looking for.

So, your new code should look something like this.

print("Menu of Colors, Blue, Red, Yellow")

first_color = input("pick first color:")

second_color = input("pick second color:")

first_color = first_color.lower()

second_color = second_color.lower()

if (first_color == "red" and second_color == "yellow") or (first_color == "yellow" and second_color == "red"):

print("orange")

elif (first_color == "blue" and second_color == "red") or (first_color == "red" and second_color == "yellow"):

print("purple")

elif (first_color == "blue" and second_color == "yellow") or (first_color == "yellow" and second_color == "blue"):

print("green")

else:

print("invalid color")