Trying to make a test program that will test three classes(Student and Instructor are subclasses of Person) and I got most of the way there with help from my professor. Downside is, my code is allowing me to write student information just fine, but when I try to run it for instructor information, it defaults back to student info. I've tried adjusting and #ing out where the student prompts would go, but it gives me the error of 'list index out of range'. If anyone could take a look at the code and see where I went wrong, that'd be great.
#import student, instructor, and person
from Student2 import Student
from Instructor2 import Instructor
from person import Person
#create function for asking what type of person we're inputting
def what_type_of_person():
#while we're not done
not_done = True
while not_done:
#ask what type of person, if student or instructor
#get first letter of response and put it in uppercase
type_of_person = input('Are you entering (S)tudents or (I)nstructors? ')[0].upper()
#if the input is either S or I
if type_of_person in ('S', 'I'):
#we're not done and move on
not_done = False
#Otherwise raise error
else:
print('Invalid input. Please try again.')
#return type_of_person
return type_of_person
#create function of finding out how many people we're getting
def get_how_many(title):
#not done is considered true right now, which means we aren't done getting people to get info from
not_done = True
#so while we're not done, we make a try/except program
while not_done:
#trying to
try:
#get a quanity of 'how many people are we getting info from?'
qty = int(input(title))
#if they input less than 0, we're done and don't need to do anything
if qty > 0:
not_done = False
#otherwise, if they do input <1, display the error
else:
print('You must have at least 1 data point to enter. Please try again.')
#otherwise, print an exception
except:
print('Invalid input! Please try again.')
#return the quantity of people
return qty
#create function for asking questions, passing in what_type
def create_prompts(what_type):
#ask for the first, middle, last name dob
prompts = ['First name: ', 'Middle name: ', 'Last name: ', 'Date of birth (mm/dd/yyyy): ']
#if what_type is I
if what_type == 'I':
#add prompts for instructor
prompts.append('Salary: ')
prompts.append('Degree (PhD or MS): ')
prompts.append('Department (CIS, CNG, CSC): ')
#otherwise add prompts for student
if what_type == 'S':
prompts.append('Major: ')
prompts.append('GPA: ')
prompts.append('Class year (FR, SO, JR, SR): ')
#return prompts
return prompts
#create function for loading list, pass in what_type and how_many
def load_list(what_type, how_many):
#make the create_prompts function labelled as 'prompts'
prompts = create_prompts(what_type)
#empty list
list_of_people = []
#for each person they want to get info from
for i in range(how_many):
try:
#make an empty list called answers
answers = []
#for every prompt in prompts
for prompt in prompts:
#append the answers in prompt to the answers list
answers.append(input(prompt))
#if the type of person is an instructor
if what_type == 'I':
#create a variable containing all answers 1-7 from instructor
to_append = Instructor(answers[0], answers[1], answers[2], answers[3], answers[4], answers[5], answers[6])
#otherwise create a variable containing all answers 1-7 from student
else:
to_append = Student(answers[0], answers[1], answers[2], answers[3], answers[4], answers[5], answers[6])
#append this variable to the list of people list
list_of_people.append(to_append)
#if none of that works, create an exception
except Exception as e:
print(e)
print("You must re-enter this individual's information. Refresh and try again")
#return the list of people
return list_of_people
#create function for printing people, pass in what_type and load_list
def print_people(what_type, load_list):
#if the type of person is an instructor
if what_type == 'I':
#print following instructor statement
print('Instructor list is: ')
#otherwise print student statement
else:
print('Student list is: ')
#for each person in the list
for person in load_list:
#print their information
print(f'{person}\n')
def main():
#pass what type of person and label it as person type
#(because python doesn't like multiple variables of the same name
person_type = what_type_of_person()
#creating the question to ask how many people
how_many = get_how_many('How many people do you want to create? ')
#get the load list, passing on what_type_of_person and how_many
#and label it as list_of_people
list_of_people = load_list(what_type_of_person, how_many)
#pass on that list and the person_type to the print function
print_people(person_type, list_of_people)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
I've done a bit of digging and right around the 'create prompts' function is where it seems to go wrong. I tried moving a few things and removing others, but nothing seemed to work. If you need the 3 class python programs I have, please let me know. Anything helps!
