ekt_bear: what if they input blue

what should the output be?

Can you sketch the idea in pseudo-code, or whatever language you know how to use?

ekt_bear: You can use the range() function combined with a for loop (or list comprehension) to reduce the block of print(c) calls down to one line.

Probably also wise to wrap the above in a function. And have the color passed as a parameter to the function.

You can google how to do these things in python (range(), for loop, list comprehension, functions).

ekt_bear: What do you want to happen if they enter a color that is not in your list?

ekt_bear: What is the point of this color list, if you'll print out whatever color they enter?


From your description so far, it sounds unnecessary. Just take the string they have, assume that it is a valid color, and call your function that prints it

ekt_bear: Hey,

I would suggest that you paste code on a site like pastebin.com which will not ruin your formatting. Then post a link to pastebin.com.

ekt_bear: oh, so the default python interpreter on my laptop is python2. And I guess I was modifying your code using that, rather than python3.

Anyways, you can patch this up for whatever version you are using (python3, i guess).

Actually, this illustrates a good point. Probably it is a good idea to write the dependencies a script has. I.e., if the script is python3 only, then make a comment about that at the top of the file.

handsomeness:
hahahahaha.....
No wonder.. I'm through with this exercise. Thank you very much Sir..
God bless you- you've really helped me.

def sayColor():
    a = str(favcolor) * 6
    b = str(favcolor) * 4
    c = str(favcolor) * 1
    print(a)
    print(b)
    print(c)
    print(c)
    print(c)
    print(c)
    print(a)
    print(b)

def sayColor(clr):
    a = str(clr) * 6
    b = str(clr) * 4
    c = str(clr) * 1
    print(a)
    print(b)
    print(c)
    print(c)
    print(c)
    print(c)
    print(a)
    print(b)

sayColor(favcolor)

#this function means we dont have to rewrite the logic when we need to output black color or purple or whatever color
#we will just call it like this sayColor(whatever_color)
def sayColor(clr):
    #recursive function, yes, python lets you use functions inside a function and it's garbage collected at the end of it's parent suite
    def childSC(the_color, nTimes, separator):
        multiplyIt=(the_color * nTimes)+separator
        #lets give the result back to whoever called childSC
        return multiplyIt
    


    # this is what breaks your output to the next line so we will pass this into our function as a separator
    newline="\n"

    #lets concatenate the functions, with the right parameters, Notice that here we multiplied the function by 4 when we needed the same thing 4 times
    #                                                                        |
    #                                                                        V
    a = childSC(clr,6,newline)  +  childSC(clr,4,newline)  +   (childSC(clr,1,newline)*4)  +  childSC(clr,6,newline)  +  childSC(clr,4,newline)

    print(a)

webdezzi: a 100 line code can be more efficient that a 10 line code that does same thing.
i see your approach as more efficient, someone else may think otherwise.
our logical reasoning differs, a bit

i wrote that so you can understand functions.