[Edu-sig] a non-rhetorical question

[Vern Ceder]

Tom,

Yeah, if they've got dictionaries, then your way is both elegant and 
"Pythonic" ;-)

Cheers,
Vern

Tom Hoffman wrote:
> On 7/6/07, Andy Judkis <ajudkis at verizon.net> 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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