Including two things it will check for in one if statement in python

lets say I have a program that runs like this in python

x=raw_input("Please enter name: ")
if x=="David" and "Jonathon"
   p开发者_JAVA百科rint "Whatever"

how do I get two things such as Jonathon and David so it excepts both of these scenarios and for both executes print "Whatever". I know that ["David" and "Jonathon"] isn't the proper syntax for this so I want to know what is. I also know how to do this be adding an elif statement but I want to know another way.

You can do:

x=raw_input("Please enter name: ")

if x=="David" or x=="Jonathon":

    print "Whatever"

Or you can do:

names=["Bob","Joe"]
x=raw_input("What is your name?\n")
if x in names:
     print "Whatever"

If you are dealing with large data.

names = ["David", "Jonathon"]
x=raw_input("Please enter name: ")
if x in names:
    print "Whatever"

You're looking for logical OR. What you're trying to do here as far as I understand is say if x=="David" OR x=="Jonathon" then do something so you want the following.

Clearly x cannot have two values so AND will never evaluate to true. This would be the correct code (or velociraptors version using an array)

x=raw_input("Please enter name: ")

if x=="David" or x=="Jonathon":

    print "Whatever"

Given the discussion, here's the whole hog using a simple config file (I've tested the conf.read().split() so please, no comments about it). The config file would contain one name per line with no spaces (so no "firstname surname"):

conf = open('/path/to/config.txt','r')
names = conf.read().split()

x=raw_input("Please enter name: ")
if x in names:
    print "Whatever"

If your list of names had the potential to get very long, this would be the most maintainable solution.