On 05/04/2015 07:08 PM, Jag Sherrington wrote:
Hi, Alan>
Please don't top-post. Enter your new message *after* whatever portion
of the previous message you're quoting. I'm rearranging the portion of
your message to conform to that standard.
On Monday, 4 May 2015, 17:35, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>
wrote:
# Process one or more items.
while another == 'y' or another == 'y':
That's the same test twice. Is that what you meant?
#Get the item 's wholesale cost'
wholesale = float(input("Enter the item's wholesale cost: "))
# Validate the wholesale cost.
while wholesale < 0:
print('ERROR: the cost cannot be negative.')
wholesale = float(input('Enter the correct wholesale cost: '))
BUG on following line:
#Calculate the retail price.
retail = wholesale * mark_up
#Display the retail price.
print('Retail price: $', format(retail, ',.2f'), sep='')
#Do this again.
another = input('Do you have another item? ' + \
'(Enter y for yes): ')
HERE ARE THE RESULTS:
Enter the item's wholesale cost: 0.50
Enter the item's wholesale cost: (THIS SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM)
No problem, its exactly what your program tells it to do.
If the cost is >0 there is nothing else to do so it goes
round the loop a second time.
What did you expect it to do?
> Enter the item's wholesale cost: 0.50 (AFTER THIS LINE PRINTS I HIT
> ENTER AND WOULD EXPECT THE NEXT LINE TO GIVE ME THE RESULT>
> Enter the item's wholesale cost: "Retail price: $1.25"
> INSTEAD WHEN I HIT ENTER I GET "Enter the item's
> wholesale cost: " AGAIN AND AGAIN
(See Peter's comment as well as Alan's second one.)
All the rest of your logic is inside the while loop that's only run when
the wholesale < 0 branch is taken. So you don't see any output from it,
as it never runs unless you enter a negative value followed by a
positive one.
You have to fix the indentation of the lines starting "#Calculate the
retail price"
--
DaveA
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