Re: [Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread Alan Gauld
On 02/06/15 17:25, Stephanie Quiles wrote: What is the +k+ called? How exactly does it work? I'm a big confused on that... You seem to be replying to the wrong post. I assume you mean this one from Joel? - >> for k in capitals.keys(): >> state = input('Enter the

Re: [Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread Alan Gauld
On 02/06/15 17:17, Peter Otten wrote: 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") Y goes round again silently.

Re: [Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread Stephanie Quiles
What is the +k+ called? How exactly does it work? I'm a big confused on that... Stephanie Quiles Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 2, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > > Alan Gauld wrote: > >>> On 02/06/15 15:15, Peter Otten wrote: >>> >>> Not an optimization, but if the

Re: [Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread Peter Otten
Alan Gauld wrote: > On 02/06/15 15:15, Peter Otten wrote: > >> Not an optimization, but if the user enters neither Y nor N you might ask >> again instead of assuming Y. > > He does. He only breaks if the user enters N > >>> choice = input('Do you want to play again y/n: ') >>>

Re: [Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread Alan Gauld
On 02/06/15 09:45, ZBUDNIEWEK.JAKUB wrote: I'm a newbie, but was able to tune it to correctly reply to user inputs. 1. My question is can it be optimized in any way? Code can nearly always be optimised. Whether it is worth doing so depends on the need to do so. In this case I douybt its worthwh

Re: [Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread Alan Gauld
On 02/06/15 15:15, Peter Otten wrote: Not an optimization, but if the user enters neither Y nor N you might ask again instead of assuming Y. He does. He only breaks if the user enters N choice = input('Do you want to play again y/n: ') if choice.upper() == 'N':

Re: [Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread Alan Gauld
On 02/06/15 15:50, Stephanie Quiles wrote: > So basically, what I did wrong was the indentation? Yes. In Python indentation is all important. When you write a for (or while) loop Python executes all the indented code under the opening loop statement. When it sees an unindented statement it reads

Re: [Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread Stephanie Quiles
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 Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 2, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > > ZBUDNIEWEK. JAKUB wrote: > >> I'm a new

Re: [Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread Peter Otten
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 yo

Re: [Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread ZBUDNIEWEK . JAKUB
': 'Austin', 'Utah': 'Salt Lake City', \ 'Vermont': 'Montpelier', \ 'Virginia': 'Richmond', 'Washington': 'Olympia', \ 'West Virginia': 'Charleston&#

Re: [Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Stephanie Quiles wrote: > >> Good evening, >> >> As you may have noticed i am really struggling with functions and >> dictionaries. I need to figure out why this program is allowing me to >> continue entering incorrect data ins

Re: [Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread Peter Otten
Stephanie Quiles wrote: > Good evening, > > As you may have noticed i am really struggling with functions and > dictionaries. I need to figure out why this program is allowing me to > continue entering incorrect data instead of telling me my answer is > incorrect. also at the end it’s not tallyin

[Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

2015-06-02 Thread Stephanie Quiles
Good evening, As you may have noticed i am really struggling with functions and dictionaries. I need to figure out why this program is allowing me to continue entering incorrect data instead of telling me my answer is incorrect. also at the end it’s not tallying the incorrect/correct responses