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Python Python Basics (2015) Shopping List App Refactor

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shopping_list.py
def main():
def show_help():

    # print out instructions on how to use the app
    print("What should we pick up at the store?")
    print("""
Enter 'DONE' to stop adding items.
Enter 'HELP' for this help.
Enter 'SHOW' to see your current list.
""")

def show_list(shopping_list):
    # print out the list
    print("Here's your list:")

    for item in shopping_list:
        print(item)

def add_to_list(shopping_list, new_item):
    # add new items to our list
    shopping_list.append(new_item)
    print("Added {}. List now has {} items.".format(new_item, len(shopping_list)))
    return shopping_list

main()
show_help()

# make a list to hold onto our items
shopping_list = []

while True:
    # ask for new items
    new_item = input("> ")

    # be able to quit the app
    if new_item == 'DONE':
        break
    elif new_item == 'HELP':
        show_help()
        continue
    elif new_item == 'SHOW':
        show_list(shopping_list)
        continue
    add_to_list(shopping_list, new_item)

show_list(shopping_list)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

The function will start on line 22, just above the call to show_help().

So you need to move your definition from line 1 down to the proper place. It looks like you put a call to main where the definition should be.

Besides adding the definition line, to move the following lines into the function, you just indent them one stop (or one more than where they currently are). So you will indent every (non-empty) line below the definition.