PROBLEM SET 1: DEEP THOUGHT | SOLUTION (CS50 PYTHON)

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[lightS]

Cool video! This is the code that I did and it worked as well:

answer = input("What is the Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? ").lower().strip()

match answer:
case "42" | "forty-two" | "forty two":
print("Yes")
case _:
print("No")

Instead of using the if and elif, I used the match function because it was shorter

[sir_rojas]

I solved this one with the match option, but thanks for giving us another way to solve it. Here's mine.

def main():
answer = input("What is the Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? ").lower().strip()

match answer:
case "42" | "forty-two" | "forty two":
print("Yes")
case _:
print("No")


main()

[Clay]

nice video. here was my solution after messing around for a bit:

def main():
answer = input("What is the Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? ").lower().strip()
check_answer(answer)

def check_answer(x):
if x == "42" or x == "forty two" or x == "forty-two":
print("Yes")
else:
print("No")

main()

[kieranjackson]

Here is mine, but now i realise i could of made it shorter with case matching

user = input("What is the answer to the greatest question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? ").lower().strip()




if user == "42":
print("Yes")

elif user == "forty-two":
print("Yes")

elif user == "forty two":
print("Yes")

else:
print("no")

[MigueRubio]

# I first play with the answer and then y verify if the match one of the possible cases.

answ = input("What is the Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything? ")
answ = answ.strip().casefold() # Remove spaces and render lowercases
answ = answ.replace("-", "")

print(answ)


match answ:
case "42" | "forty-two" | "fortytwo":
print("Yes")
case _:
print("No")

[captain_ali_]

Thank you very much.. Alternative with fewer lines:

answer = input("What is the answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything?")

if answer.strip() == "42" or answer.lower().strip == "forty-two" or answer.lower().strip() == "forty two":
print("Yes")
else:
print("No")

[Dr.Unsteady]

I really appreciate how you explain the topic to its basics for each line of code, rather than just saying what you need to do. It helps me think about it logically why I am doing it and makes everything on that specific topic much easier to grasp and understand

[thomasbrittinghamjr.]

This worked for me:

# Ask user for input, strip and lowercase
question = input("What is the answer to the great question of life, the universe, and everything? ").lower().strip()

# if else statement
if question == 'forty-two' or question == 'forty two' or question == '42':
print('Yes')
else:
print('No')

[natigoat-wg]

user_answer = input("What is the Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and
if user_answer == "42" or user_answer == "forty-two" or user_answer == "forty two":
print("Yes")
else:
print("No")

[AbuzerZia]

this also works and its short too

x = input("What is the Answer to the Great Question of life, the Universe and Everything ").lower().strip()
if x == "42" or x == "forty-two" or x == "forty two":
print("Yes.")
else:
print("No.")

[getschwiftypickle]

or do it with array

list = ["42", "forty two", "forty-two"]

def main():
msg = input("What is the Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? ")
msg = msg.lower().strip()
if msg in list:
print("yes")
else:
print("no")

main()

[ankito-]

Great work but rather than using if statement, we can easily achieve this with fewer lines of code using lower(), replace(), strip() and the match statement:

user_input = (input("What is the Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? ")).lower().replace("-", " ")

match user_input:
case "42" | "forty two":
print("Yes")
case _:
print("No")

[marcopuruncajas]

Giovanna you are amazing! I'm really learning with your videos, thanks you for your time in making the videos and helping many people who is starting their journey on Python

[chiranjibigautam]

def main():
x= input (" what is the answer to the great wuestion of life, the universe, and everything? " ).lower().strip()
if (x == "42" or "forty-two" or "Forty two"):
print(" Yes")
else:
print( " NO ")

main()

[restilestari]

I made a shorter way to solve the problem

the_answer = str(input("What is the Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? " )).strip()
if the_answer.lower() in ["forty two", "forty-two", "42"]:
print("Yes")
else:
print("No")

[adarshgurung]

I really appreciated your effort. I have been looking up to your videos for help though this particular one I did it myself. But again thank you :)

[mtndmb]

Hey! Thank you for the content, it is very helpful. I just have a small question regarding the answer. Why could it not have been
if answer == "42" or "forty-two" or "forty two"
print("Yes")
else:
print("No")
?
I have tried to use this method but unfortunately it did not work and I fail to understand why. Thank you in advance

[Coltwhyte]

Good explanation, feeling like a true programmer now xD!

[justwalk]

answer = input("What's the answer to the great question of life? ")
match answer:
case "42" | "forty-two" | "forty two":
print("Yes!")
case _:
print("No!")

[Last_Hope]

An easy and optimized code for this problem

# Taking Input From the User
user_input = input("What is the Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? ")

# Converting the user input into upper case letters for dealing with case sensitive letters
user = user_input.upper()

# Comparing the user input with the following statements
if user == 'FORTY-TWO' or user == 'FORTY TWO' or user == '42':

#If matches with any of the statements. Yes will be printed
print("Yes")
else:

# If the if statement is false then the programme outputs No
print("No")

# Credits :- S.Moulali
print("This Code is Written by S.Moulali")