'''
Purpose: gain experience with if-elif-else
'''

# report message based on day of week
#       Sunday: weekend day
#       Monday: start of school week
#      Tuesday: school day
#    Wednesday: school day
#     Thursday: school day
#       Friday: end of school week
#     Saturday: weekend day

# get day of interest
reply = input( 'Enter day of week: ' )

# put day in standard format - first letter capitalized, others lower case
day = reply.strip()
day = day.capitalize()

# day = reply.strip().capitalize()   # alternatively could also be written as
# be careful with this - strip() returns a string, and we pass that into the capitalize() function, which accepts a string
print( )

# analyze and report on day
# we could check each day of the week individually, but that's a lot of lines repeating the same message
if ( day == "Monday" ) : # **our if statement starts here**
    print( "start of school week" )
elif ( day == "Friday" ) : # elif says we're still in the same if statement -> only 1 action is executed
    print( "end of school week" )
# elif ( day == "Tuesday" or day == "Wednesday" or day == "Thursday" ) : nothing wrong with this it's just long
elif ( day in [ "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday" ] ) : # this is equivalent to the line above
    # why do we use a list instead of a string? we're checking for a string, not a character
    # we could define a list called school_days and assign it to this list, but checking
    print( "school day" )
elif ( day in [ "Saturday", "Sunday" ] ) :
    print( "weekend day" )
else :
    print( "that's not a day of the week!" )
# the if statement is over now. since there was an else, we executed exactly one of the actions above