On 2 December 2013 02:25, Byron Ruffin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The following program works and does what I want except for one last problem
> I need to handle. The program reads a txt file of senators and their
> associated states and when I input the last name it gives me their state.
> The problem is "Udall". There are two of them. The txt file is read by
> line and put into a dictionary with the names split. I need a process to
> handle duplicate names. Preferably one that will always work even if the
> txt file was changed/updated. I don't want the process to handle the name
> "Udall" specifically. For a duplicate name I would like to tell the user
> it is not a unique last name and then tell them to enter first name and then
> return the state of that senator.
You're currently doing this:
> senateInfo = {}
> senateInfo[lastName] = state
Instead of storing just a state in the dict you could store a list of
states e.g.:
senateInfo[lastName] = [state]
Then when you find a lastName that is already in the dict you can do:
senateInfo[lastName].append(state)
to append the new state to the existing list of states. You'll need a
way to test if a particular lastName is already in the dict e.g.:
if lastName in senateInfo:
Oscar
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