Prompt to enter a name and then output the name that was entered along a score

Question

I am writing a program for my intro CS class but I am a little stuck.
I have a designated list of names that correspond to a list of scores.
I am supposed to prompt the user to enter a name and then the program is supposed to output the name that was entered along with the corresponding score.
As I have it written now the program is printing the first name and score in the set regardless of the input. I have been stuck on this for a while, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Here is what I have right now:

names=['Jim','Sarah','Jason','Lynne','Ginny','Joe','Susan'];
scores=['88','92','95','84','85','92','89'];
input("Please enter student's name:")
for i in range (0,7):                             
    print (input(names[i] + scores[i]));

You are utterly ignoring the input. What do you expect to happen? You need to *capture* the input in a variable and then *use* that variable in the remainder of the code. Also, having the `input` inside the print statement like that really makes no sense. Perhaps you could visit your instructor during their office hours? — John Coleman, Mar 12 '17 at 20:26
@cricket_007 semicolons work (they separate statements) but of course not needed here. — Jean-François Fabre, Mar 12 '17 at 20:28
@Jean-FrançoisFabre Clarification = *as line-terminators* :) — OneCricketeer, Mar 12 '17 at 20:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

the program is supposed to output the name that was entered

That'll be hard considering you aren't capturing the input() return value.

Try this (as an example)

name = input("Please enter student's name:")
print(name)

Then, you next task is to check (in your loop) when name == <a name in the list>

Hint: You can use these for your loop rather than range(0,7)

for student in names:

or, even better, see zip lists in python

for (student, score) in zip(names, scores):

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '17 at 20:39

Using the zip function, you can combine the two lists together in an easy to use 1-to-1 group of tuples.

names=['Jim','Sarah','Jason','Lynne','Ginny','Joe','Susan']
scores=['88','92','95','84','85','92','89']
data = zip(names, scores) # <- ('Jim', '88'), ('Sarah', '92'), ...

stud = input('Enter the student's name: ')
for (student, score) in data:
    if (stud == student):
        print('{} -> {}'.format(student, score))

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 12 '17 at 20:42

Better to use Python dictionaries for that:

student_scores = {'Jim': 88, 'Sarah': 92, 'Jason': 95}

and so on... Then you can call for each of them like so;

name = input("Please enter student's name: ")
print(name + 'has a score of ' + student_scores[name])

Prompt to enter a name and then output the name that was entered along a score

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