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Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:57 PM, John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 12:45:38 AM UTC-7, Anssi Saari wrote:
>>
>>> BTW, did I get the logic correctly, the end result is random?
>>
>> You're right!  I'm guessing that's not what the OP wants?
> 
> I'm guessing that's exactly what the OP wants. This is a fairly
> classic programming puzzle; on the surface it appears that you have
> some influence on the outcome, but ultimately you're playing
> rock-paper-scissors with the Random Number God.

As it is written, don't you always win if you hit enter?
It may be the approved cheat code, though...

OP:

("some string")

is not a tuple, it is the same as just

"some string"

therefore

option1 = "some string"
if input() in option1:
    print("yes")

prints 'yes' if the user types in a substring of option1, and the shortest 
substring of any string is "".

For a single-item tuple the trailing comma is mandatory:

>>> ("some string") # string
'some string'
>>> "some string", # tuple
('some string',)
>>> ("some string",) # tuple, parens added for clarity
('some string',)

In general a tuple is consituted by the comma(s), not the parentheses:

>>> "one", "two"
('one', 'two')

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Beginner question eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-06-03 20:39 -0700
  RE: Beginner question Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-04 09:46 +0300
    Re: Beginner question John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-06-04 00:53 -0700
      RE: Beginner question Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-04 11:17 +0300
  Re: Beginner question Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2013-06-04 10:45 +0300
    Re: Beginner question John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-06-04 00:57 -0700
      Re: Beginner question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 18:24 +1000
      Re: Beginner question Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-06-04 11:23 +0200
      RE: Beginner question Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-04 14:23 +0300
        Re: Beginner question Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-04 12:35 +0000
          RE: Beginner question Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-04 15:51 +0300
            Re: Beginner question Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-07 02:21 +0000
      RE: Beginner question Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 12:34 +0100
      RE: Beginner question Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-04 14:53 +0300
        Re: Beginner question Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-04 12:25 +0000
          RE: Beginner question Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-04 15:37 +0300
          RE: Beginner question Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 13:47 +0100
      RE: Beginner question Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 13:15 +0100
      Re: Beginner question Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-06-04 13:16 -0400
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