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Python, While loop & lists - jaki - Jun-28-2018 Hello everyone, I have a homework assignment where we are supposed to make a basic arithmetics calculator using: • Lists • Built-in functions including split(), upper(), len()etc. • in, not in, == etc. operators • String manipulation • Conditional statements (if-elif-else) • Iterative statements (while) also We cannot use the built-in functions eval( ) or exec(). We cannot use break or continue or pass or sys.exit( ) in our Python program. I'm having difficulties with 2 things: 1) How to end a while loop without using break, our teacher suggested using carryON = True # Loop until the user has entered either ‘Q’ or ‘q’ while carryON : but I don't know how to make the statement False 2) How to add the users values from a list So far I have: print("Select operation:") print(" Add by using the statement: Add N1 and N2") print(" Subtract by using the statement: Sub N2 from N1") print(" Multiply by using the statment: Mul N1 by N2") print(" Divide by using the statment: Div N1 by N2") print(" Or to Exit enter: Q") #Ask user for input and display approprite message operation=input("Enter an arithmetic statement or 'Q' to quit the calculator: ").split() sum = print ("Answer: " +operation[0]+" "+operation[1]+" "+operation[2]+" "+operation[3]+ " = " + (sum))So if I want to add the values of operation 1&3 how would I do that? Ex: [Add, 5, and, 3] Thank you! RE: Python, While loop & lists - ichabod801 - Jun-28-2018 The while loop is easy. If it's based on a variable, you just set that variable to False: while carry_on: ... if operation[0].lower() == 'q': carry_on = FalseDepending on the structure of your program, you can often simplify this to while operation[0].lower() != 'q': .If you can expect a list like ['Add', '8', 'and', '1'], you just need to get the second and fourth items (with zero-indexing these are operation[1] and operation [3]), convert them to numbers with the built-in int(), and add them together. |