On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Aija Thompson <aijathomp...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I've been working on this question for a long time and for some reason it's > just not clicking.
Algorithm is the appropriate approach. That's what makes it click. > > I'm not sure if my loop for the question is the right one, or if I'm even on > the right track. > > We're supposed to make a program that counts the number of days into the > year it is if you input a date. Not including leap years. We'll leave leap years alone for now then, but there are special years for that input which could be used as a count variable. > > This is what I have so far: > > months = 'January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, > September, October, November, December' > daysPerMonth = '31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31' > > #shorterMonths = 'February, April, June, September, Novmeber' > #longerMonths = 'January, March, May, July, August, October, December' I'd suggest using a dictionary with the month as the identifier(month_dict = {'january' : 31, 'february': [28,29]}, and an integer as the value for each static count of months. > > month = raw_input('Enter the month: ') > day = raw_input('Enter the day: ') > > for x in month: > whichMonth = months.index(x) > monthNumber = daysPerMonth[whichMonth] > dayYear.append(monthNumber) > > I was hoping to make a loop that would check which month it is and compare > it to the second list I made with the number of days in that month. I don't > know if I've made that clear to the program or not. Either way, I feel > pretty lost at the moment. > > Any help would do! > > Thanks! > But in the end, you just want to count days. So you could iterate through the dictionary's values_of days in each month, up until the month and the date matches(loop stops), while using a day_count += 1 in the loop. Just check for the value of the month, and the number of the day to stop the loop count. -- Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor