-----Original message-----
From: Orri Ganel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:22:48 -0500
To: Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Tutor] Control flow
> Kent Johnson wrote:
>
> > Bob Gailer wrote:
> >
> >> At 04:43 AM 1/29/2005, Liam Clarke wrote:
> >>
> >>> < erk, to the list, to the List!>
> >>>
> >>> if ( bad_weather =='y' ):
> >>> # ask user only if weather is bad.
> >>> b = input ( "Weather is really bad, still go out to jog?[y/n]" )
> >>> if b == 'y':
> >>> go_jogging()
> >>>
> >>> Anyone else notice that he's never gonna go jogging if the weather
> >>> is bad?
> >>> Unless I've got input() wrong, it only takes integers... ?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From the docs:
> >> input( [prompt])
> >> Equivalent to eval(raw_input(prompt)).
> >
> >
> > So, it takes more than just integers, but it won't work the way the OP
> > expects:
> > >>> print input('Type something: ')
> > Type something: 'spam ' * 4
> > spam spam spam spam
> > >>> print input('Type something: ')
> > Type something: y
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > File "<string>", line 0, in ?
> > NameError: name 'y' is not defined
> > - because eval('y') looks for a variable named y
> >
> > >>> print input('Type something: ')
> > Type something: 'y'
> > y
> >
> > It works with the quotes - it is evaluating a string literal
> >
> > raw_input() would work better.
> >
> > Kent
> >
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> Or you could just define a variable y and a variable n which equal "y"
> and "n", respectively. Using raw_input() is probably easier though.
>
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Hi,
If I want to put a dictionary in a dictionary, does the syntax for assigning
and getting at the stuff in the inner dictionary look something like this:
outer_dictionary[inner_dictionary][key] = 'value'
?
Thanks.
Jim
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