IF and Print statement incorrectly worded in Python-CodePudding

I am making a text game in Python. I need this to ONLY print "You cannot go that way, try a different direction" when the direction is not a valid move. But this is printing every time.

#show_game_instructions()
    while True:
    print('What direction do you want to go?')
    direction = input()
    current_room = rooms[current_room][direction]
    print('You are in '   current_room)

    if 'item' in rooms[current_room]:
        print('The item in this room is the', rooms[current_room]['item'])
        print('To add to to inventory: type "get" and the name of the item in this room')
    if direction not in rooms[current_room]:
        if direction != 'North''South''East''West':
            print("You cannot go that way, try a different direction')

CodePudding user response：

I suspect this line is not doing what you think it should do

direction != 'North''South''East''West'

if you want to check that direction is not one of those options you could do

if direction.lower() not in ['north', 'south', 'east', 'west']:
    print("You cannot go that way, try a different direction')

CodePudding user response：

Try replacing the IF statement with this:

if direction not in ['North', 'South', 'East', 'West']: