On 12 December 2010 07:10, Al Stern <albst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This was another execise in my book. Following is my code for a program
> that uses dictionaries to find and edit pairs of fathers and sons. The
> program works right up to the final step which is to find out if any given
> father is actually a grandfather to someone else in the dictionary. I set
> up multiple generations in the dictionary so there would be available
> matches.
>
> elif choice == "8":
> print ("Find the grandson of a person in the list.")
> grandfather = input("Which father do you want to look up to see if
> he is a grandfather? ")
> if grandfather in pairs:
> father == pairs[grandfather]
> for father in pairs:
> grandson == pairs[father]
> print (grandfather, "is the grandfather of", grandson, ".")
> else:
> print ("Sorry.", grandfather, "is not a grandfather. Try
> again.")
>
>
>
> input ("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.\n")
>
> Choice 8 gives me the following error...
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Users\Public\Documents\My Python programs\father_son.py", line
> 105, in <module>
> father == pairs[grandfather]
> NameError: name 'father' is not defined
>
> I thought father got defined in the
>
> father == pairs[grandfather]
> line. I have tried it a couple different ways but always get the father is
> not defined error once I enter the name.
>
> I'm sure somebody has beaten me to it, but:
You have used "==" rather than "="
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