I just wrote a program to let the user input a series of whole numbers
and tell them which is least and which is greatest based off of a menu.
However, the menu isn't kicking in after they pick a number. I included
a while statement for a loop just for the menu and compared it to my
other programs that have a similar setup and are working, but I'm
stumped. Here's the program...
def main():
#define and initialize variables
#choice as int
choice = 0
#number as int
number = 0
#intro
print "WELCOME TO THE GREATEST AND LEAST NUMBER PROGRAM!"
print
#Menu loop
while choice != 2:
#display menu
print "Please choose from the following menu: "
print "1. Enter a number"
print "2. Exit"
print
#prompt user for their menu choice
choice = input("Enter your choice here: ")
#if statements to determine which choice
if choice == 1:
nums = []
while number >=0:
nums.append(number)
number = input("Please enter a number.")
elif choice == 2:
print "Have a great day!"
if len(nums) > 0:
print "The smallest number that you entered was:",min(nums)
print "The largest number that you entered was:",max(nums)
else:
#invalid
print "Invalid selection. Enter either one or two."
print
Also, if they quit the program with choice #2 and entered numbers, it
should display the greatest and least of them. If they just started and
didn't enter anything and want to quit, I get an error message saying
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'nums' referenced before assignment.
Isn't the if statement supposed to keep python from going there since if
they didn't enter any input, the length of the list should just be zero.
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