Peter Otten wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:
remember exactly what was stored. Maybe a typo.
That's a bug in the store() function
# as posted
def store(data, full_name):
names = full_name.split()
if len(names) == 2: names.insert(1, '')
labels = 'first', 'middle', 'last'
for label, name in zip(labels, names):
people = lookup(data, label, name)
if people:
people.append(full_name)
else:
data[label][name] = [full_name]
# what was probably intended
def store(data, full_name):
names = full_name.split()
if len(names) == 2: names.insert(1, '')
labels = 'first', 'middle', 'last'
for label, name in zip(labels, names):
people = lookup(data, label, name)
if people:
people.append(full_name)
else:
data[label][name] = [full_name]
(Note indent error, which I overlooked)
It is a nuisance when people post untested code, without identifying it
as such. Publishing untested but trivial-to-test code like this (one
print statement needed), especially in a book for learners, is really bad.
(I am trying to do better in the book I am working on.)
tjr
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