Better still. Thanks Brian.
On Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at 09:44 PM, Brian van den Broek wrote:
Marc Gartler said unto the world upon 2004-12-14 22:13:
I am trying to have a user select from amongst a list of items, and
then make use of that choice later on as both a string (e.g. "you
chose _____"). My function currently allows for a numerical choice,
but I am not sure how to return it as the item (e.g. apple) rather
than the integer corresponding to the position in the list:
def get_material(mylist):
mycount = 1
for item in mylist:
print mycount, item
mycount = mycount + 1
material = raw_input("Please select material:")
myposition = int(material) - 1
return myposition
fruit_list = ['apple', 'orange', 'banana']
fruit = get_material(fruit_list)
Hi Marc,
Since fruit_list is a list, you can 'fetch' an element out of it like
so:
fruit_list[index]
where index is an integer.
Your function returns an integer. So, for the minimal change to get
what you want done, try replacing your last line with these two:
fruit = fruit_list[get_material(fruit_list)]
print fruit
Best,
Brian vdB
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