On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 20:57:52 +0100, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>On 20/10/2014 20:49, Seymore4Head wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 20:40:18 +0100, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 2014-10-20 19:10, Seymore4Head wrote: >>>> I haven't had a lot of practice doing this. If anyone knows of a site >>>> I would appreciate it. >>>> >>>> Will Python work like this: >>>> I am trying to come up with an example and work to it. Say I want a >>>> Grocery list and it will have a maximum size of 50 items. >>>> >>>> I want to do this with one list. >>>> Make a list of 0-50. >>>> Then can I add to that list so the second item will hold something >>>> like cheese, eggs, milk. >>>> Say then I want to add the price of cheese, eggs and milk. >>>> Say then I want to add another list of price of cheese, eggs milk from >>>> another store. >>>> >>>> Can this be done starting with just a list of numbers from 0-50? >>>> Please no hints, just answer directly how it is done. >>>> >>>> for store in range (50): >>>> print store >>>> >>>> How can I add to store where it looks like this: >>>> (0,cheese, 1,eggs 2,milk , 3-50,blank for now) >>>> >>> The grocery list would be a list of the things you want to buy. >>> >>> There are a number of stores, so that would be a list of stores. For >>> each store you want the price of each item, so that would be a dict >>> where the key is the item and the value is the price of that item. That >>> means it would be a list of dicts. >>> >>> Does that help? >> >> No. I am pretty new to Python. >> >> For starters I would like to know if you can make a single item list >> and then turn it into a 2 item list. Is there a command for that? >> >> Do you have to know the number of items the list will have before >> making it? >> > >Python doesn't have commands and no. Perhaps you'd care to (re)read the >tutorial. Thank you -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
