Need Help With A Code (Python 3)

[buoyant geyser]

Beginner here. I'm playing around with the dictionary function, and I am trying to build a basic translator.

However, it seems to only translate one word correctly.

This is the code:

english = input("Type in a sentance: ").lower()

"""
DICTIONARY
"""
portuguese = {
# Greetings
"hello": "olá",

# Article
"the": "o"
}

portu_output = ""
for eng_word in english:
portu_output = portuguese.get(english, eng_word) + " "
print(portu_output)

When I write one word in the input, "Hello", the output will translate successfully, "olá".

But when I write two words, both items of the dictionary, such as "Hello the" together, the output will only print out the last letter of those words.

"Hello the" will only be printed out as "e", or "the hello" will only be printed out as "o".

I wonder where I went wrong. Thanks.

Need Help With A Code (Python 3)

[fringe stag]

1- The loop takes it character by character, so you need to loop over another iterable that holds words, like a list or tuple
2- change

    portu_output = portuguese.get(english, eng_word) + " "

to

portu_output += portuguese.get(eng_word) + " "
             ^
             |  

[buoyant geyser]

Thanks for the response, except the output now repeats itself

Nvm I'll have to do suggestion 1 first

[fringe stag]

yeah

[worldly ether]

You are looping over the characters, you need to split the input on spaces using english.split()

portu_output = "" for eng_word in english.split(): portu_output += portuguese.get(eng_word, eng_word) + " " print(portu_output)