i need someone's opinion

[wynand]

i am busy making my tax calculator global, the following is my code to calculate rebates, i want to use the min function and run a running balance.
it should check in what bracket the user's age is and then add the results to get the total rebate/benefit amount. i am still a beginner at coding and don't understand the concept 100%. the -1 is for if age is more than 75. and i am using a dictionary called rebate_table

rebate_table = {65: 17235, 75: 9444, -1: 3145}

def calculate_tax_benifits(age, rebate_table):
    total_tax_benefits = 0

    # Check if age is less than the minimum age threshold in rebate_table
    min_age = min(rebate_table.keys())
    if age < min_age:
        total_tax_benefits += rebate_table[min_age]
    else:
        # Iterate through each benefit data
        for benefit_age_threshold, benefit_amount in rebate_table.items():
            # Check if age is less than the current threshold
            if age < benefit_age_threshold:
                total_tax_benefits += benefit_amount
                break  # Break the loop, found the applicable rebate
            elif benefit_age_threshold == -1:  # Special case for age > 75
                total_tax_benefits += benefit_amount
            else:
                total_tax_benefits += benefit_amount

    print(total_tax_benefits)
    return total_tax_benefits

Gribouillis write May-16-2024, 12:27 PM:
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