Mixed Data

Question

In the sample data used the data is on a specific flow. For example it starts Name,email ,phone number,job,company,twitter,Name,email ,phone number,job,company,twitter, Name,email ,phone number,job,company,twitter

what if the data is mixed the row has the order of Name,email ,phone number,job,company,twitter and the next row or person data is email ,phone number,job,company,twitter, Name

Answer 1 · 2015-09-18T15:17:46Z

September 18, 2015 3:17pm

Hey,

If I have a method like this.

def Contact(Name,email ,phone number,job,company,twitter,Name,email ,phone number,job,company,twitter) :
               //DO SOME CODE

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Now, when I pass information into that contact. The data is given in order. The first argument passed is is the Name, the second is email.

If I pass email first and Name second. That is ok. It will still work. But Name will hold the value of an email and email will hold the value of a name. 

Here is an example.

```python

>>> def contact(name, age, title):
...     identity = name
...     how_old = age
...     job = title
...     print(identity + " " + how_old + " " + job)
>>> contact("ryan", "29", "engineer")
ryan 29 engineer

See that looks right. It's also easy to read, because if I look at the method I know what name, age and title mean. It's simple. But if I mix them up.

>>> contact("engineer", "ryan", "29")
engineer ryan 29

See it still works but it no longer makes any sense.

Does this answer your question? Let me know if it does or does not and I can try to help further.

Thanks!

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