Lab 5 Python Lists

Question

include header information in your program and just submit the program.

Create a program that writes to a file.

The program must take user inputs of First Name, Last Name, Street address, City, State and ZipCode.

If the State a user enters is: PA ,NJ, DE, MN, NH use the zipcode list to replace the ZipCode entered when writing to your file.

The state and zipcode lists have five elements that are matched by index location.

The output file should contain five rows of name and address information and be formatted as below. Note the "|" character is the separator between values.

LastName|FirstName|Street Address|City|State|ZipCode 

Use the below lists in your program:

state = ["PA","NJ", "DE","MN","NH"]

zipcode = ["19063","18076","19067","24298","13890"]

Answer 1

states = ["PA","NJ", "DE","MN","NH"]

zipcodes = ["19063","18076","19067","24298","13890"]

def get_user_info():

# Create an empty string that we'll add the inputs to later

output_str = ""

# Get the user's input with the input() function

# Then add it to output_str with a "|" at the end

output_str += input("Please enter your first name: ") + "|"

output_str += input("Please enter your last name: ") + "|"

output_str += input("Please enter your street address: ") + "|"

output_str += input("Please enter your city: ") + "|"

# Save the input for the state to state_input.

state_input = input("Please enter your state: ")

# Then add it to the output string like before.

output_str += state_input + "|"

# Checking if the state is inside of our list of states.

# Just in case the state is in our list,

# but the user entered lowercase letters:

# We use string.upper() to force the string to be all uppercase letters!

# So "pa".upper() would return "PA". Case matters when comparing strings

if state_input.upper() in states:

# This executes only if state_input is in the states list.

# Lists have a function called index(),

# it takes in a value and if it is in the list, it'll return the index.

# Ex. states.index("DE") would return 2

state_index = states.index(state_input.upper())

# We then use that index to get the corresponding zipcode from our zipcodes list.

# Then append the zipcode to output_str

output_str += zipcodes[state_index]

else:

# If the state isn't in the states list,

# we just ask the user for their zipcode and add it to output_str.

output_str += input("Please enter your zip code: ")

# return the output string

return output_str

def write_to_file(string):

# Open "output.txt" with the option "a".

# This will create output.txt if it doesn't exist,

# and give us the ability to write to the end of the file.

output_file = open("output.txt", "a")

# Add the given string to the file along with a new line character,

# so the next input goes on a new line

output_file.write(string + "\n")

# Close the file, because we're done with it.

output_file.close()

# Calling our functions

data = get_user_info()

write_to_file(data)