On 28/08/11 14:53, Lisi wrote:
Type the Name - leave blank to finishLisi
Notice no space before Lisi
Type the Street, Town, Phone. Leave blank to finishth, rc, 123457
Type the Name - leave blank to finish
Which name to display?(blank to finish) Lisi
Notice the space before Lisi?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/AddressBook", line 17, in<module>
print name, AddressBook[name]
KeyError: ' Lisi'
Notice the space at the start of the string?
The stored entry is keyed on "Lisi" the search was for " Lisi"
which doesn't exist.
You could as an exercise make the program more robust to that kind of
error by eliminating whitespace at each end of the key string both
before storing the data and when searching...
You might also consider eliminating case errors by forcing both
the key string and search string to lowercase, but if you do
that you will want to store the name with case in the value
part and not rely on the key being part of the data...
--
Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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