On 10/01/13 19:35:40, kwakukwat...@gmail.com wrote: > pls this is a code to show the pay of two people.bt I want each of to be > able to get a different money when they enter their user name,and to use > it for about six people. > database = [ > ['Mac'], > ['Sam'], > ] > pay1 = 1000 > pay2 = 2000 > > name = raw_input('Enter your name: ') > if [name] in database:print "your pay is $",pay
How about: database = dict(Mac=1000, Sam=2000, Eric=3000, Terry=4000, Graham=5000) name = raw_input('Enter your name: ') if name in database: print "Your pay is ${}".format(database[name]) Hope this helps, -- HansM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list