[Tutor] Calculate hours

[Mitya Sirenef]

On 01/22/2013 10:34 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 01/22/2013 10:08 PM, Mitya  Sirenef wrote:
 >> On 01/22/2013 09:52 PM, anthonym wrote:
 >>> Hello All,
 >> >
 >> > I originally wrote this program to calculate and print the employee
 >> > with the most hours worked in a week. I would now like to change this
 >> > to calculate and print the hours for all 8 employees in ascending
 >> > order.
 >> >
 >> > The employees are named employee 0 - 8
 >> >
 >> > Any ideas?
 >> >
 >> > Thanks,
 >> > Tony
 >> >
 >> > Code below:
 >> >
 >> >
 >> >
 >> > # Create table of hours worked
 >> >
 >> > matrix = [
 >> > [2, 4, 3, 4, 5, 8, 8],
 >> > [7, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4],
 >> > [3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2],
 >> > [9, 3, 4, 7, 3, 4, 1],
 >> > [3, 5, 4, 3, 6, 3, 8],
 >> > [3, 4, 4, 6, 3, 4, 4],
 >> > [3, 7, 4, 8, 3, 8, 4],
 >> > [6, 3, 5, 9, 2, 7, 9]]
 >> >
 >> > maxRow = sum(matrix[0]) # Get sum of the first row in maxRow
 >> > indexOfMaxRow = 0
 >> >
 >> > for row in range(1, len(matrix)):
 >> > if sum(matrix[row]) > maxRow:
 >> > maxRow = sum(matrix[row])
 >> > indexOfMaxRow = row
 >> >
 >> > print("Employee 7", indexOfMaxRow, "has worked: ", maxRow, "hours")
 >>
 >>
 >> There is an issue with this program: it omits the first row.
 >
 > No, it doesn't. The OP fills in item 0 in the initial values for 
maxRow and indexOfMaxRow. Then he figures he can skip that row in the 
loop, which is correct.

Yes, I noticed after writing the reply..

To the OP: that's an odd way to handle it, you can set maxRow to 0 and
then iterate over all rows.

  -m



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