Functions and if - else in python. Mutliple conditions. Codeacademy

Question

Write a function, shut_down, that takes one parameter (you can use anything you like; in this case, we\'d use s for string).

The shut_down func

Answer 1

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s = raw_input ("Would you like to shut down?")

This asks if the user would like to shut down.

def shut_down(s):
    if s.lower() == "yes":
        print "Shutting down..."
    elif s.lower() == "no":
        print "Shutdown aborted!"
    else:
        print "Sorry, I didn't understand you."

This is probably new to you. If you have a string, and then .lower() it changes all input from s to lowercase. This is simpler than giving a list of all possibilities.

shut_down(s)

This calls the function.