# Check that users have entered a valid # option based list def string_checker(question, valid_ans): while True: # Get user response and make sure it's lowercase user_response = input(question).lower() for item in valid_ans: # check if the user response is a word in the list if item == user_response: return item # check if the user response is the same as # the first letter of an item in the list elif user_response == item[0]: return item # Automated testing is below in the form (test_case, expected_value) to_test = [ ("Rock", "rock"), ("Paper", "paper"), ("Scissors", "scissors"), ("rock", "rock"), ("paper", "paper"), ("scissors", "scissors"), ("R", "rock"), ("P", "paper"), ("S", "scissors"), ("Random", "invalid"), ] # run tests! for item in to_test: # retrieve test case and expected value case = item[0] expected = item[1] # get actual value (ie: test ticket function) actual = string_checker(case, ["yes", "no"]) if actual == expected: print(f"Passed! Case: {case}, expected: {expected}, received: {actual}") else: print(f"Failed! Case: {case}, expected: {expected}, received: {actual}")