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Python

Posted by Brian Esser
Brian Esser
4,850 Points

Shopping List: I did it with a function....I notice though that the professors method was a lot cleaner.

Is it better to parse everything into areas like the professor, in terms of convention or best practice? Here's what I did:

shoppingList= []
def listFunc(shoppingList):
    shoppingList = shoppingList
    item = input("What do you want to add to your list? " )
    if item == "DONE":
        return print(shoppingList)
    else:
        shoppingList.append(item)
        listFunc(shoppingList)

listFunc(shoppingList)

1 Answer

jacinator
jacinator
11,936 Points

This is probably what my code would look like. 

shopping_list = []
def list_func(shopping_list):
    while True:
        item = input("What do you want to add to your list? " )
        if item == "DONE":
            return shopping_list
        else:
            shopping_list.append(item)

list_func(shopping_list)

While your thinking about conventions, Python convention is to use snake casing for variables and function names. It won't break on camel casing, but it's kind of obvious that you are more used to another language.

Brian Esser
Brian Esser
4,850 Points

Thanks!