Thanks for the help!
I have managed to get a good temperature converter program working! I am
working on beefing it up a bit with some exception handling and an "and-or
trick". The error handling works okay but I am having problems using and-or.
Here's my updated code:
def main():
true = 1
while true:
try:
temp = int(raw_input("Enter A Number : "))
break
except ValueError:
print "Invalid Input"
while true:
convertTo = raw_input("Convert To (F)ahrenheit or (C)elsius? : ")
if not convertTo == "F" and not convertTo == "C":
print "Invalid Input"
* else:
convertTo == "C" and convertToCelsius(temp) or
convertToFahrenheit(temp)
break
*
def convertToCelsius(t):
tC = (9.0/5.0) * (t - 32)
print "%d Fahrenheit = %d Celsius" % (t, tC)
def convertToFahrenheit(t):
tF = (9.0/5.0) * (t + 32)
print "%d Celsius = %d Fahrenheit" % (t, tF)
if __name__=="__main__":
main()
Sample Output (as of right now):
Enter A Number : 50
Convert to (F)ahrenheit or (C)elsius? C
50 Fahrenheit = 32 Celsius
32 Celsius = 147 Fahrenheit <-- shouldn't show up and 147 is too high ...
This only happens when I tell it to convert to C, if I say F it works
normally. I've debugged it with pdb.set_trace() many times but can't figure
out what's wrong. Help is much appreciated =)
Thanks,
Joe
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> "Joseph Bae" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> temp = input("Enter A Number : ")
>> convertTo = raw_input("Convert To (F)ahrenheit or (C)elsius? : ")
>>
>> if convertTo == "F":
>> convertedTemp = convertToFahrenheit(temp)
>> print "%d Celsius = %d Fahrenheit" % (temp, convertedTemp)
>> else:
>> convertedTemp = convertToCelsius(temp)
>> print "%d Fahrenheit = %d Celsius" % (temp, convertedTemp)
>>
>> def convertToFahrenheit(t):
>> tF = (9.0/5.0) * (t + 32)
>> return tF
>>
>> def convertToCelsius(t):
>> tC = (9.0/5.0) * (t - 32)
>> return tC
>>
>> convertedTemp = convertToFahrenheit(temp)
>> NameError: name 'convertToFahrenheit' is not defined
>>
>> This is most likely a very simple error, but can someone please clarify
>> for
>> me why it's behaving this way?
>>
>
> Others have explained that you need to execute the function
> definitions before Python sees the name. You can do this in
> two ways depending on taste.
> 1) As suggested move your main code below the function definitions.
> 2) move your main code into a function - traditionally called main()
> then call main as the last line of your code.
>
> The second method has two advantages:
> 1) It maintains the top-down design style if thats your preferred style
> 2) It makes it much easier to make the file into a reusable module.
>
> It has two minor disadvantages:
>
> 1) The extra function call (main() ) slows things down by a tiny amount
> 2) the extra indentation level of being inside a function reduces the page
> width slightly
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Alan Gauld
> Author of the Learn to Program web site
> http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
>
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