How do i make an if statement with lists work

Question

My Code:

team = ['barca', 'madrid']
fav_team = raw_input('What is your favorite team: ')
fav_team = fav_team.upper()
if fav_team in team:
 print "AWESOME"

Hello. I'm very new to programming, i have zero experience and I'm trying to make this work. But when i run this code, its not printing anything. I want to be able to make the user input his favorite team, and something prints out. But nothing comes out. how do i get the print statement to show?. I already tried using the input function and that did not work.

• xZ6a33YaYEfmv: I'm no python expert, but you are comparing .upper() input with lowercase array.

Answer 1

You need to call lower function.

team = ['barca', 'madrid']
fav_team = raw_input('What is your favorite team: ')
fav_team = fav_team.lower()
if fav_team in team:
 print "AWESOME"

Answer 2

team = ['barca', 'madrid']
fav_team = raw_input('What is your favorite team: ')
fav_team = fav_team.lower() #make upper lower
if fav_team in team:
 print "AWESOME"

You need to make your upper lower as list contains elements in lower.

This will still have errors if list has capitals. So make both lowercase.

if fav_team in map(str.lower,team):
 print "AWESOME"