[kempablavitt]

I need to make a program in python that ask the user for the amount of rain each month and calculates the total and avarage of rain. And then I need to show the months that it rained the most and the same with less.
I have writen this but I don't know how to get the names of the months, it works if the months got a number that represents it in the list. I need help with the last thing. How do I change so it shows the name of the months instead?

# -*- coding: cp1252 -*-

def main():

num_months = 12

	#Definera lite listor
	months = [0] * num_months
	name_months = ['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sept','Oct','Nov','Dec']


	#Funktion för räkna det totala från listan
	def total(months):
		total = 0

		for num in months:
			total += num
		return total

	#Få alla nummer från användaren
	for index in range(num_months):
		print 'Enter the amount of rain in',
		months[index] = input(str(index + 1) + ': ')
	print 'The total is', total(months), 'mm.'

	#Genomsnittet
	avarage = float(total(months)) / float(num_months)
	print 'The avarage rainfall is', avarage, 'mm.'

	#Översätt från siffror till månadernas namn
	

	#Sortera listan
	months.sort()
	
	print 'Lowest is', months[0]
	
	print 'Most is', months[11]
	
main()

[Stutzbach]

kempablavitt, on 28 Sep, 2008 - 06:18 AM, said:

I have writen this but I don't know how to get the names of the months, it works if the months got a number that represents it in the list. I need help with the last thing. How do I change so it shows the name of the months instead?

You could change "months" the be a list of (amount of rainfall, name of month) tuples. Something like this:

months = []
for index in range(num_months):
		print 'Enter the amount of rain in',
		months[index] = (input(str(index + 1) + ': '), name_months[index])

That way, when you sort the list, the names of the months stay with the amount of rainfall.

[kempablavitt]

Stutzbach, on 28 Sep, 2008 - 07:01 AM, said:

You could change "months" the be a list of (amount of rainfall, name of month) tuples.

That way, when you sort the list, the names of the months stay with the amount of rainfall.

I see what you mean but I can't get it to work...its a good idea though. I have tried many things now but still can't get it to work.

[David W]

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I see what you mean but I can't get it to work...its a good idea though. I have tried many things now but still can't get it to work.

you could try something like this ...

def main():

	#Definera lite listor
	months = [0] * 12
	name_months = ['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun', \
				   'Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec']

	#Funktion för räkna det totala från listan
	def total(months):
		total = 0
		for num in months:
			total += num
		return total

	#Få alla nummer från användaren
	for index in range(12):
		print 'Enter the amount of rain in',
		months[index] = input(name_months[index] + ': ')
	print 'The total is', total(months), 'mm.'

	#Genomsnittet
	avarage = total(months) / 12.0
	print 'The avarage rainfall is', avarage, 'mm.'

	#Översätt från siffror till månadernas namn

	# firstly ... make an unsorted copy ...
	m_copy = months[0:]
	# now ...
	#Sortera listan
	months.sort()
	
	lowest = months[0]
	print 'Lowest is', lowest, 'in',
	# we are going to make a list of the month names that = lowset
	lows = []
	for i in range (12):
		if m_copy[i] == lowest:
			lows.append( name_months[i] )
	for i in range (len(lows)):
		print lows[i],
		if i < len(lows)-1: print 'and',
	print
			
	highest = months[11]
	print 'Highest is', highest, 'in',
	# we are going to make a list of the month names that = highest
	highs = []
	for i in range (12):
		if m_copy[i] == highest:
			highs.append( name_months[i] )
	for i in range (len(highs)):
		print highs[i],			
		if i < len(highs)-1: print 'and',

	print
	
main()