On 7/6/07, Andy Judkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vern, Richard,
>
> Your comments were very helpful -- it's sometimes hard for me to see the
> question as a student would. They can imitate nicely, but asking them to
> analyze and synthesize (as this question does, at a very superficial level)
> seems to be asking a lot -- yet it's the essence of programming.
>
> Reading between the lines of Vern's message, I wonder how he would want
> students to answer the question. What I was looking for was more or less
> what he considered the wise-guy answer:
>
> while True:
> resp = raw_input("Who is hottest teacher?")
> if resp == "Mr. Judkis":
> print "Excellent choice!"
> break
> elif resp == "Mrs. McGrath":
> print "Also a fine choice."
> break
> else:
> print "Wrong, sorry. . ."
Here's the most elegant solution I could come up with:
teachers = {'Mr. Judkis':'Excellent Choice',
'Mrs. McGrath':'Also a fine choice.'}
name = raw_input()
while name not in teachers.keys():
print 'Wrong, sorry.'
name = raw_input()
print teachers[name]
--Tom
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