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Multi set string inputs/outputs - kwmcgreal - Sep-26-2020 I actually have no idea what to even call this as I am brand new to python I am trying to create a simple program that generates a number of different string outputs depending on what inputs the user enters. For example: if they input the month the program would output a message depending on what month they entered (i.e. if they input December or January or February output would be: Northern Hemisphere Winter; input other months = different seasons... you get the point. I couldn't figure out what to look up to find this out. Making if then else statements seemed burdensome as opposed to using some sort of list definition or something. Can I take a string input and convert a list of them into another set value ex: December, January, February, =winter? Thank you Kevin RE: Multi set string inputs/outputs - bowlofred - Sep-26-2020 Do you want to print all the information for each of the inputs, or just some of them? You could have a list of random information and print one or two. Or you could characterize them like "season_info" and "average_temp" and pick what information is returned or printed. I'd probably prefer to store everything in a separate file with some structure and read it in. For now, maybe lets just put it in JSON format. month.json {"January":[ "Northern Hemisphere Winter", "Average high temp is 46F", "Named for the Roman god Janus" ] }code import json INFOFILE = "month.json" f = open(INFOFILE, "r") monthdata = json.load(f) query = input("What's your input? ") if monthdata.get(query): for info in monthdata[query]: print(info) else: print(f"I have no information on {query}")
RE: Multi set string inputs/outputs - kwmcgreal - Sep-26-2020 I don't need a list of information, just a message specific to if they enter a certain input, or different messages if they enter different inputs. I will look up what JSON is and how to do that though. Thanks! |