I am creating a web-scraping tool for some gift cards, and I have stored the name of each gift card (which is a string, i.e “PSN”) as a variable. So for example, P = “PSN”
I have a user input asking them to put in the name of the card they’re after, but I want it to be restricted to the variables I have already defined, so that if they type a name other than the cards I have already allowed for, it will return an error and ask them to type the name again.
How can I go about this?
Here is the code I’ve written so far:
#Stored strings for each card G = "Google".casefold() P = "PSN".casefold() X = "Xbox".casefold() I = "iTunes".casefold() N = "Nintendo".casefold() A = "Amazon".casefold() S = "Steam".casefold() Card_Name = input('Enter Card Name:') cardnameanswer = G, P, X, I, N, A, S Card_Name = cardnameanswer
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Answer
Like this:
G = "Google".casefold() P = "PSN".casefold() X = "Xbox".casefold() I = "iTunes".casefold() N = "Nintendo".casefold() A = "Amazon".casefold() S = "Steam".casefold() while True: # Keeps looping unless specified Card_Name = input('Enter Card Name:') if Card_Name in [G, P, X, I, N, A, S]: # If the card name entered is amoung the valid names break # Break out of the loop, without continuing the rest of the loop print('Invalid card name.') # Only prints if the user haven't broke out of the loop