Understanding condition logic

Question

I\'m writing a python program that takes a given sentence in plan English and extracts some commands from it. It\'s very simple right now, but I was getting some unexpected resu

Answer 1

"workspace" or "screen" or "desktop" or "switch" is an expression, which always evaluate to "workspace".

Python's object has truth value. 0, False, [] and '' are false, for example. the result of an or expression is the first expression that evaluates to true. "workspace" is "true" in this sense: it is not the empty string.

you probably meant:

"workspace" in command or "screen" in command or "desktop" in command or "switch" in command

which is a verbose way to say what @Ashwini Chaudhary has used any for.