🔒 How do you make an edit function in python

[covert pelican]

@digital sentinel

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[digital sentinel]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/MLAA

I'm making a grocery list system, so i want it to have an edit system. The thing is it keeps breaking the code after i put in my prompt for edit

[marsh citrus]

are you getting an error?

[small finch]

you'll want to explain how it behaves incorrectly and how you want it to behave. other people don't know those things even if you do.

[marsh citrus]

It seems to be running as I would expect on my machine

Please type 'buy', 'show', 'edit', and 'exit': buy
Please type the name of what you want to buy: carrot
Please type 'buy', 'show', 'edit', and 'exit': edit
Current groceries list: ['carrot']
What do you want to edit (type the item exactly as shown): carrot
Change 'carrot' to: carrots
Please type 'buy', 'show', 'edit', and 'exit': show
Current groceries list: ['carrots']
Please type 'buy', 'show', 'edit', and 'exit': 

[small finch]

since your program takes user input, that's arguably part of the code and should also be shared

ideally like this, so it can simply be copy-pasted in:

buy
carrot
edit
carrot
carrots
show

[digital sentinel]

yeah

okay

[marsh citrus]

I mean, what is the issue, like?

[digital sentinel]

ok so not neccessarily an error but when i edit it it doesnt change the string name for example if i type

buy
carrot
edit
carrot
milk

then i input show

it wont show carrots as milk

[marsh citrus]

interesting

[marsh citrus]

on my machine, it is working as expected

I inputted the inputs as you gave. Are you sure you're typing them in correctly?
Have you saved the file, perhaps?

[digital sentinel]

i have

i did save it

[marsh citrus]

and that is 100% the file you're running?

[digital sentinel]

im sure yes

[marsh citrus]

ok so

[marsh citrus]

can you like exit it rn if its running then input those commands then show, then paste the whole output?

[digital sentinel]

nvm its working

thanks

[marsh citrus]

ok

maybe you were running a py version earlier than 3.10 then idk

[small finch]

that'd be syntax error on the match/case

probably didn't save the file in-between restarting the program

[marsh citrus]

yeah

[covert pelican]

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