Question

I am programming a health statistics calculator. A particular section of my program that won't do the computation. print "\n---Average Daily Inpatient Census---" IPSD = float(raw_input("\nType in the total inpatient service days: ")) month_p = raw_input("Type in the first 3 letter of the month: ") month_p = month_p.capitalize() months = {"Jan": 31, "Feb": 28, "Mar": 31, "Apr": 30, "May": 31, "Jun": 30, "Jul": 31, "Aug": 31, "Sep": 31, "Oct": 31, "Nov": 30, "Dec": 31} if month_p == months["Jan"]: print IPSD / months["Jan"] Maybe a fresh set of eyes may help figure out why

Answer 1

With an indentation dependent language like Python, unformatted code like this is really tough. How can a string (month_p) equal an integer (months["Jan"])?

Answer 2

print "\n---Average Daily Inpatient Census---"

IPSD = float(raw_input("\nType in the total inpatient service days: "))
month_p = raw_input("Type in the first 3 letter of the month: ")

month_p = month_p.capitalize()

months = {"Jan": 31, "Feb": 28, "Mar": 31, "Apr": 30, "May": 31, "Jun": 30, "Jul": 31, "Aug": 31, "Sep": 31, "Oct": 31, "Nov": 30, "Dec": 31}

if month_p == months["Jan"]:
print IPSD / months["Jan"]
[That was the code]


[This is the working code]
I figured out I should get rid of the condition statement and replace it with:

ADIC = IPSD / months[month_p]
print "%.1f" % ADIC+" days"


print "\n---Average Daily Inpatient Census---"

IPSD = float(raw_input("\nType in the total inpatient service days: "))
month_p = raw_input("Type in the first 3 letter of the month: ")

month_p = month_p.capitalize()

months = {"Jan": 31, "Feb": 28, "Mar": 31, "Apr": 30, "May": 31, "Jun": 30, "Jul": 31, "Aug": 31, "Sep": 31, "Oct": 31, "Nov": 30, "Dec": 31}

ADIC = IPSD / months[month_p]
print "%.1f" % ADIC+" days"

Answer 3

@pynetq paste sites would be a great help for posting code....
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