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Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 PointsSwitching up: diary.py - Why am I getting this comments on the console?
My question is when I start ./dairy.py it doesn't give me a clean console options that should b option 'a' and 'w'. It returns a long text explaining what the values are going to be like. Any idea? Is this a bug in my code? Here is what I've done:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from collections import OrderedDict
import datetime
from peewee import *
db = SqliteDatabase('diary.db')
class Entry(Model):
content = TextField()
timestamp = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)
class Meta:
database = db
def initialize():
db.connect()
db.create_tables([Entry], safe="True")
def menu_loop():
"""nothing yet"""
choice = None
while choice != 'q':
print("Enter 'q' to quit.")
for key, value in menu.items():
print('{}) {}'.format(key, value.__doc__))
choice = input('Action: ').lower().strip()
if choice in menu:
menu[choice]()
def add_entry():
"""nothing yet """
def view_entries():
"""nothing yet """
def delete_entry(entry):
"""nothing yet """
menu = OrderedDict([
('a', 'add_entry'),
('w', 'view_entries'),
])
if __name__ == '__main__':
initialize()
menu_loop()
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 PointsThe issue is with your menu definition. The second value of the tuple is expected to be a function, not a string. That is, remove the single quotes wrapping the function names:
menu = OrderedDict([
('a', add_entry),
('w', view_entries),
])
Trying to evaluate the code 'add_entry'.__doc__ results in a long output string instead of the doc string of the specific function:
In [116]: 'add_entry'.__doc__
Out[116]: "str(object='') -> string\n\nReturn a nice string representation of the object.\nIf the argument is a string, the return value is the same object."
Verses doing the same on the function, yeids the doc string:
In [117]: def add_entry():
.....: """nothing yet """
.....:
In [118]: add_entry.__doc__
Out[118]: 'nothing yet '
Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 PointsThanks for the help. I couldn't see what the problem was.
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 PointsChris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 PointsIt would help to read your code if you wrapped your code example in a <code>```python<code> ... <code>```<code> as mentioned in the Markdown Cheatsheet. Thanks!