CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
user7091652
user7091652

Reputation:

Why doesn't my code change when I ask for user input and append that to a list?

I wanna store in a list all user inputs collected over time. I did something like this:

reactions = []
reaction = raw_input("I wanna know your reaction, yo: ")
reactions.append(reaction)

but even after refreshing, my code looks exactly the same, an empty list.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 59

Answers (3)

Patrick Haugh
Patrick Haugh

Reputation: 61063

Let's just save them to a file

reaction = raw_input('Please React: ')
with open('reactions.txt', 'a') as f: #a is append mode
    f.write(reaction + '\n')

Upvotes: 4

nosklo
nosklo

Reputation: 223152

I don't know what you mean by "refreshing". But your code creates a new empty list at the beginning, so if you run it again, it will always append to a new empty list. Try to see your code as a list of instructions that execute one after another in sequence.

maybe add at the end a way to show the contents of the list print(reactions) and a loop to repeat the last two lines multiple times:

reactions = []
while True:
    reaction = raw_input("I wanna know your reaction, yo: ")
    reactions.append(reaction)
    print reactions

Upvotes: 0

GregarityNow
GregarityNow

Reputation: 740

When I run your code and print reactions I get whatever I entered. If you want to collect a lot of reactions, you could make a loop, which ends once the user enters "q":

reactions = []
reaction = raw_input("I wanna know your reaction, yo: ")
while reaction != "q":
    reactions.append(reaction)
    reaction = raw_input("I wanna know your reaction, yo: ")
print(reactions)

Upvotes: 0

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