🔒 How to use an array instead of sets

[knotty ermine]

@tropic ginkgo

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[tropic ginkgo]

oh my text got deleted

[fresh valley]

!paste

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[tropic ginkgo]

will this work? https://paste.pythondiscord.com/KPHQ

im new to python, im learning through school and i was assigned to create a quiz program and i have to use arrays instead of sets

[fresh valley]

yes = {'yes','y','YES','Y','Yes'}

this is a set literal

[tropic ginkgo]

yes

[fresh valley]

lists?

[tropic ginkgo]

i think?

i have no idea whats an array

[fresh valley]

they probably mean list

[tropic ginkgo]

i think i can show a teacher example of their array

one sec

[charred yarrow]

you can pretty much use lists, there is no need for sets

[fresh valley]

there is no array in builtins

[tropic ginkgo]

but there was something that i was programming inefficiently

like 3x the amount of code

[charred yarrow]

also you dont need to import time whenever you want to wait 1 second

[tropic ginkgo]

ah yeah i dont but

i jus add it in

[fresh valley]

import time once at the very top of the script

[tropic ginkgo]

oh

[charred yarrow]

you can do these ifs/elifs more efficient

[fresh valley]

ew

[tropic ginkgo]

yeah

[fresh valley]

why are you using that font

[tropic ginkgo]

thats what he was talking about

[fresh valley]

?

[tropic ginkgo]

my teacjer

[charred yarrow]

I like it

[tropic ginkgo]

First think about the algorithm

Then write

[fresh valley]

can't argue with that

[tropic ginkgo]

It helps reduce

Code

could u give me a example

[fresh valley]

first think about your full sentence, then write. It helps reduce messages. :)

we don't really know what your teacher wants, as we are not your teacher

[fresh valley]

Did you mean to reply to OP?

[tropic ginkgo]

he asks to make the program to be written more efficiently like those elifs and ifs

[tropic ginkgo]

Yeah

[tropic ginkgo]

@tropic ginkgo

Make the algorithm flow chart first

[fresh valley]

where did you get "end the program" from

[charred yarrow]

think of smart ways of doing it

[tropic ginkgo]

It's a basic template

[fresh valley]

you also have some bugs in your code

such as line 76

[tropic ginkgo]

oh i see

i prob confused myself and did typo

[fresh valley]

also your ready thing does not seem to function properly

first of all, the program continues no matter if the user is considered ready or not

you also say "any input", but simply pressing enter will give empty string, which is falsy

[tropic ginkgo]

oh

I'll just put import to the top of the script in that case

[fresh valley]

that is completely unrelated to what I just said, but yes you should do that with the time import

in all future scripts that you write, all imports should go at the top

[tropic ginkgo]

like it wont be used to function

[fresh valley]

🤔

[knotty ermine]

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