How to check if a variable is equal to one string or another string

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if var is  stringone  or  stringtwo       dosomething     This does not work  I have a variable and I need it to do something when it is either of the values  but it will not enter the if statement  In Java if  var     stringone      stringtwo   works  How do I write this in Python

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Two separate checks  Also  use    rather than is to check for equality rather than identity    if var   stringone  or var   stringtwo        dosomething

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for a in soup  p    id   pagination    0   a    href   True            if createunicode a text  in    lt     lt                 links append a attrMap  href            else              continue   It works for me

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if var     stringone  or var     stringtwo       dosomething      is  is used to check if the two references are referred to a same object  It compare the memory address  Apparently   stringone  and  var  are different objects  they just contains the same string  but they are two different instances of the class  str   So they of course has two different memory addresses  and the  is  will return False

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This does not do what you expect   if var is  stringone  or  stringtwo       dosomething     It is the same as   if  var is  stringone   or  stringtwo       dosomething     Which is always true  since  stringtwo  is considered a  true  value   There are two alternatives   if var in   stringone    stringtwo        dosomething     Or you can write separate equality tests   if var     stringone  or var     stringtwo       dosomething     Don t use is  because is compares object identity   You might get away with it sometimes because Python interns a lot of strings  just like you might get away with it in Java because Java interns a lot of strings   But don t use is unless you really want object identity    gt  gt  gt   a     b      ab  True  gt  gt  gt   a     b  is  abc   2  False   but could be True  gt  gt  gt   a     b  is  ab  True    but could be False

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if var     stringone  or var     stringtwo       do something     or more pythonic   if var in   string one    string two        do something

[python] How to check if a variable is equal to one string or another string?

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