Tim Williams (gmail) wrote: > The following will accept any subset of "carmel" in upper, lower or > mixed case > > EG Carmel, carmel, Carm, mel etc > > >>> if raw_input ("hello what's your name? ").lower() in 'carmel': > .... print "Ahh the boss's wife" It's so powerful, it accepts even the empty string... try typing just the ENTER key... -Peter