Thank you all for your help! I have a text today but I am not confident with
this. So basically, what I did wrong was the indentation?
Thanks
Stephanie Quiles
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> On Jun 2, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>
> ZBUDNIEWEK. JAKUB wrote:
>
>> I'm a newbie, but was able to tune it to correctly reply to user inputs.
>
>> 2. Why (on Windows) do I have to give inputs in quotes not to cause an
>> error (for ll input the error is ' NameError: name 'll' is not defined')?
>
> If you are running the script under Python 2 you should use
> raw_input() instead of input(). input() will take the user input and also
> run eval() on it:
>
> Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56)
> [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> input("? ")
> ? 1 + 1
> 2
>>>> raw_input("? ")
> ? 1 + 1
> '1 + 1'
>
> Python 3 has no raw_input() and input() will behave like raw_input() in
> Python 2.
>
>> 1. My question is can it be optimized in any way?
>
> In Python 2 capital.keys() builds a list. You can avoid that by iterating
> over the dict directly:
>
> for k in capitals:
> ...
>
> Not an optimization, but if the user enters neither Y nor N you might ask
> again instead of assuming Y.
>
>
>> def main():
>>
>> right = 0
>> wrong = 0
>> capitals = {'Alabama': 'Montgomery', 'Alaska': 'Juneau', "Arizona":
>> 'Phoenix', \
>> 'Arkansas': 'Little Rock', 'California': 'Sacramento', \
>> 'Colorado': 'Denver', 'Connecticut': 'Hartford',
>> 'Delaware': 'Dover', \ 'Florida': 'Tallahassee', \
>> 'Georgia': 'Atlanta', 'Hawaii': 'Honolulu', \
>> 'Idaho': 'Boise', \
>> 'Illinois': 'Springfield', 'Indiana': 'Indianapolis', \
>> 'Iowa': 'Des Moines', \
>> 'Kansas': 'Topeka', 'Kentucky': 'Frankfort', \
>> 'Louisiana': 'Baton Rouge', \
>> 'Maine': 'Augusta', 'Maryland': 'Annapolis', \
>> 'Massachusetts': 'Boston', \
>> 'Michigan': 'Lansing', 'Minnesota': 'Saint Paul', \
>> 'Mississippi': 'Jackson', \
>> 'Missouri': 'Jefferson City', 'Montana': 'Helena', \
>> 'Nebraska': 'Lincoln', \
>> 'Nevada': 'Carson City', 'New Hampshire': 'Concord', \
>> 'New Jersey': 'Trenton', \
>> 'New Mexico': 'Santa Fe', 'New York': 'Albany', \
>> 'North Carolina': 'Raleigh', \
>> 'North Dakota': 'Bismarck', 'Ohio': 'Columbus', \
>> 'Oklahoma': 'Oklahoma City', \
>> 'Oregon': 'Salem', 'Pennsylvania': 'Harrisburg', \
>> 'Rhode Island': 'Providence', \
>> 'South Carolina': 'Columbia', \
>> 'South Dakota': 'Pierre', 'Tennessee': 'Nashville', \
>> 'Texas': 'Austin', 'Utah': 'Salt Lake City', \
>> 'Vermont': 'Montpelier', \
>> 'Virginia': 'Richmond', 'Washington': 'Olympia', \
>> 'West Virginia': 'Charleston', \
>> 'Wisconsin': 'Madison', 'Wyoming': 'Cheyenne'}
>>
>> for k in capitals.keys():
>> state = input('Enter the capital of '+k+' :')
>> if state.upper() == capitals[k].upper():
>> right += 1
>> print('Correct')
>> else:
>> wrong += 1
>> print('Incorrect')
>> choice = input('Do you want to play again y/n: ')
>> if choice.upper() == 'N':
>> print('end of game')
>> break
>> elif choice.upper() != 'Y':
>> print("invalid choice")
>>
>> print('Number of correct answers is: ', right)
>> print("Number of incorrect answers is:", wrong)
>>
>> main()
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jakub
>
>
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