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Using Tuples or list with the raw_input command

 

Using Tuples or list with the raw_input command
jaziey

12 Oct, 2009 - 10:57 PM
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I am trying to create a python program that asks the number of motorcycles sold during each month in a year. I have created a function that takes in the number of bikes for each month, creating an integer list with 12 values. But the program asks 12 times, "What is the number of bikes sold for Jan", "What is ...Feb".. and so on. I tried to create a tuple that puts in the name of the month as a loop. But I am having no success.

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for i in range(TWELVE):
   bike[i]=int(raw_input("Enter the bikes for")) monDate[i]


I know this won't work raw_input is expecting an integer only. Any ideas?

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RE: Using Tuples Or List With The Raw_input Command

13 Oct, 2009 - 09:01 AM
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Use the calendar.month_name list to work with month names:
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>>> import calendar
>>> for i, name in enumerate(calendar.month_name):
...  bike[i] = int(raw_input("Enter the bikes for %s" % name))

According to the documentation on month_name, there's an empty element in the list at the start - so you may want to first filter calendar.month_name through something like bool in order to keep yourself from working with an empty value. Here's another way of doing it that will store the values into your array, along with prompting for names correctly:
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>>> import calendar
>>> for name in filter(bool, calendar.month_name):
...  bike.append(int(raw_input("Enter the bikes for %s: " % name)))


Hope that helps.
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