noob question Letters in words?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:03:02 -0700, mensanator at aol.com wrote:

> Why not just look at the first letter the user types instead of
> the whole string?
> 
>  if choice1[0] in ('1', 'S', 's'):
>      #do first option
>  if choice1[0] in ('2', 'E', 'e'):
>      #do second option

Is it *really* a good idea if the user types "STOP!!!" and it has the
same effect as if they typed "Start please"?

I've heard of "Do what I mean, not what I said" systems, which are usually
a really bad idea, but this is the first time I've seen a "Do what I don't
mean, not what I said" system.



-- 
Steven.