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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Lists Pop

Posted by Nick Evershed
Nick Evershed
6,429 Points

Printing wrong snack

Soda

sodas = ["Pepsi", "Cherry Coke", "Sprite"]

Crisps

crisps = ["Doritos", "Quavers", "Walkers"]

Sweets

sweets = ["Snickets", "Skittles", "Crunchies"]

while True: choice = input("Soda, Crisps, Sweets: ").lower() if choice == 'soda': snack = sodas.pop() elif choice == 'crisps': snack = crisps.pop() elif choice == 'sweets': snack == sweets.pop() else: print("Sorry, I didn't understand that") continue print("Here's your {}: {}".format(choice, snack))

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points

For sweets you have:

snack == sweets.pop()

instead of:

snack = sweets.pop()
Nick Evershed
Nick Evershed
6,429 Points

Oh dam, what does that do?

Stephen Falck
Stephen Falck
7,558 Points
Stephen Falck
Stephen Falck
7,558 Points

The '==' checks if they are equal, as opposed to assigning the value of sweets.pop() to the snack variable