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Challenge: Custom Responses

Explore building a simple Python chatbot called ChatPy that interacts with users by responding differently to messages based on keywords. Learn to implement a continuous input loop, handle exit conditions, and provide custom replies, strengthening your understanding of if, elif, and else statements in real programming scenarios.

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You’re building a simple chatbot called ChatPy.

ChatPy should:

  • keep asking the user for a message

  • reply differently based on what the user types

  • stop when the user types "bye"

Your task

  1. Inside the while True: loop, read the user’s input into msg.

  2. If the user types "bye":

    1. print a goodbye message

    2. exit the loop using break

  3. Add at least two more keyword checks using elif.

    1. Pick keywords like "music", "weather", "robot", "food", etc.

    2. When a keyword is found inside the message, print a matching response.

  4. If none of the conditions match, use else to print a general reply.

Example behaviors

  • User types: bye → ChatPy says goodbye and stops

  • User types: I like music → ChatPy replies with your music response

  • User types: hello → ChatPy uses the default response

Hint

Use checks like:

  • if msg == "bye":

  • elif "music" in msg:

def chatbot():
    print("Hi! I'm ChatPy. Let's chat. Type 'bye' to exit.")

    while True:
        msg = input("You: ")

        if msg == "bye":
            print("ChatPy: See you later!")
            break
        # Add your code here.

chatbot()
Adding custom responses to make the chatbot more fun and engaging