[Tutor] function for loaning a book

[William Ray Wing]

> On Nov 27, 2019, at 11:30 AM, samhar zghaier <samharzghaier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ok 
> The code doesn't move the file to the loan list 
> here is what my text file looks like:
> book of y, sma
> book of d, adam
> book of f, blag
> book of b, sam
> 

 Ah, OK, now liberally salt your code with print statements and watch what is happening.

> 
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 17:20, William Ray Wing <wrw at mac.com <mailto:wrw at mac.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Nov 27, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Sam <samharzghaier at gmail.com <mailto:samharzghaier at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> There is no error, it’s just that it doesn’t work
>>  
> 
> Please elaborate “doesn’t work.”  Does it not run? Does it run and not produce the expected result?  Since we don’t have your data files, we can’t see what is happening.
> 
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>> From: William Ray Wing <mailto:wrw at mac.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:04
>> To: samhar zghaier <mailto:samharzghaier at gmail.com>
>> Cc: William R. Wing <mailto:wrw at mac.com>; Tutor <mailto:tutor at python.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] function for loaning a book
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> > On Nov 27, 2019, at 8:56 AM, samhar zghaier <samharzghaier at gmail.com <mailto:samharzghaier at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello
>> > I creatred a function to read each of my text files and read them into the
>> > program, im now trying to delete a certain item from one of the two lists i
>> > created and add it to the other one
>> > currently i am not able to add a certain element to the loan list
>>  
>> Please copy and paste the entire error message traceback and show us what happens.
>>  
>>  
>> > This is the code i have currently written
>> >
>> > file_name = "text.txt"
>> > loan_file = "loan.txt"
>> >
>> > class Book():
>> >    def __init__(self, title, writer):
>> >        self.title = title
>> >        self.writer = writer
>> > def get_book_list():
>> >    book_list = []
>> >    with open(file_name, "r") as file:
>> >        lines = file.readlines()
>> >        for line in lines:
>> >            line = line.split(",")
>> >            book_list.append(Book(line[0].strip(), line[1].strip()))
>> >    return book_list
>> >
>> > def get_loan_list():
>> >    loan_list = []
>> >    with open(loan_file, "r") as file:
>> >        lines = file.readlines()
>> >        for line in lines:
>> >            line = line.split(",")
>> >            loan_list.append(Book(line[0].strip(), line[1].strip()))
>> >    return loan_list
>> >
>> > def loan_book():
>> >    book_title = input("What is the name of the book")
>> >    info = book_list
>> >    for line in info:
>> >        if line.title == book_title:
>> >            loan_list.append(line)
>> >
>> >
>> > def main():
>> >    loan_list = get_loan_list()
>> >    book_list = get_book_list()
>> >    loan_book()
>> > main()
>> >
>> >
>> > Help please
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