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Loops: Exercises and Solutions

Best-selling artists

Exercise

Do the following until the user enters quit:

  • Ask the name of an artist
  • Look up the number of sales of this artist in a dict
  • Print out the result if the number of sales are known
  • If the number of sales are unknown, ask the user to enter the number of sales, and update the dict accordingly

Solution

sales = {}
while True:
  artist = input('Enter an artist name: ')
  if artist == 'quit':
    break
  if artist in sales:
    print('{0} has sold {1} records'.format(artist, sales[artist]))
    continue
  sold = input('Enter sales: ')
  sales[artist] = sold

Output:

Enter an artist name: Michael Jackson
Enter sales: 350000000
Enter an artist name: Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson has sold 350000000 records
Enter an artist name: quit

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