[Tutor] creating a dictionary for capital quiz program

[Peter Otten]

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.