On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Luke Tomaneng <luketoman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been having a bit of trouble with the things mentioned in the title. I
> have written the following script for a Codecademy course:
> stock = {
> "banana": 6,
> "apple": 0,
> "orange": 32,
> "pear": 15
> }
>
> prices = {
> "banana": 4,
> "apple": 2,
> "orange": 1.5,
> "pear": 3
> }
>
> def compute_bill(food):
> total = 0
> for item in food:
> if stock[item] > 0:
> total += prices[item]
> stock[item] = stock[item] - 1
> return total
> Whenever I run this script, "4" is returned. It does not seem to matter what
> in in the list the script is run on. I have tried this on the Codecademy
> interpreter/emulator (I'm not sure which they use) and the repl.it
> interpreter, but for the same result. If anyone could find the glitch in my
> code, please let me know. Thanks!
You're returning total inappropriately - the first time stock[item] is > 0.
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