Newbie question

[Just van Rossum]

cherokee30114 at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> I am very frustrated about this... I am a C++ programmer by trade:
> 
> How do you test for string equality in PYTHON?
> 
> I tried:
> myarg = repr(mytup[0])
> >>> print myarg
> 'A'

Your string now contains the quotes:

>>> a = "A"
>>> print a
A
>>> print repr(a)
'A'

So, leave out the repr, and this will work as you would expect:

> >>> if myarg == 'A':
> ...     print "ok"
> ... else:
> ...     print "bad"
> ...
> bad

Just