Stephanie Quiles wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> As you may have noticed i am really struggling with functions and
> dictionaries. I need to figure out why this program is allowing me to
> continue entering incorrect data instead of telling me my answer is
> incorrect. also at the end it’s not tallying the incorrect/correct
> responses properly. please any help would be appreciated.
> for k in capitals.keys():
> state = input('Enter the capital of '+k+' :')
> if state.upper() == capitals[k].upper():
> right += 1
> print('Correct')
> else:
> wrong += 1
> print('Incorrect')
When and how often is the line
if state.upper() == capitals[k].upper():
executed?
Hint: look at the indentation in the quoted code.
PS:
> capitals = {'Alabama': 'Montgomery', 'Alaska': 'Juneau', \
> \
> "Arizona": 'Phoenix', \
> \
> 'Arkansas': 'Little Rock', 'California': 'Sacramento', \
You don't need these backslashes as long as you're inside parens, brackets
or braces. Python will happily accept dicts, lists etc. that spread over
multiple lines.
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