[Ricky1]

Im trying to add a few things to a text file. I know how to do this but when i implement it it says

TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects

this is my code.

contactList.append (name+ " scored"+score)

name is recieved in a different function, using raw_input and used as a global in the function where im doing this.
Score is numeric feild that is declared a score = 0 then when i do something i do score+= 1.
But it doens't like it.
Any ideas ???

[monkeyman23555]

em dude
It would be:
contactList.append(name + " scored" + str(score))

If name is a string then that
If the score is not a string you can't add them.

[Ricky1]

omg y didn't i think of that lol.
Thanks,

1 more think, how do i do this.

def listAllRecord():
#begin listAllRecord
global contactList
for count in range (0, len(contactList)):
print str (count) + "\t" + contactList [count]
#end listAllRecord

this will show all the things on the list.

the things on the list are like.
Matt scored 0
Matt scored 1
Matt scored 5
Steve scored 0
Ricky scored 5

how would i do it so i could enter the person whos scores i wanted to see ??

[monkeyman23555]

Thanks first time i really could help

Okay to your other problem (you want the def to print out all the enteries)

Em what is that contactlist[count]???

How about you just do this:

def contactlist(list):
	for item in list:
		print item

Hey, are you new to python., because those were the things I forgot at the start too.

[Zone]

To output only by name, you could do:

def list_for_name(contactList,name):
    for item in contactList:
        if name in item: print item

then, you'd call this function with the name you're seeking and the list as arguments. hope this helps.

[Ricky1]

thanks you two.
One more thing.
Would it be possible to have a function that would delete all me scores ??
from contactList

[monkeyman23555]

ya you could do

def delete():
del scores
score = [] #to make a new list ready for next start

[Zone]

i'm not sure what you mean by 'delete all me scores'. If you mean delete all scores in the list, you could just do:
>>> contactList = []

if you want to delete all scores of a particular person, you could do:

def remove_name(name,contactList):
    toRemove = []
    for item in contactList:
        if name in item:
            toRemove.append(item)
    for item in toRemove:
        contactList.remove(item)

[Ricky1]

noooooo i need to delete all the info in contactList.
so basically the textfile is empty.

[monkeyman23555]

then just do my way or zones I am not sure which one is cleaner, I never really used it.

[Ricky1]

thanks u2 this post has been resolved.

[monkeyman23555]

Welcome
I have one last question do u have a messager

[hydroxide]

Originally Posted by Ricky1

how would i do it so i could enter the person whos scores i wanted to see ??

Ignore the other replies you've received ;-P
When you want lookup, you should be using a dictionary:

scoremap = { "Matt": [0, 1, 5],
             "Steve": [0],
             "Ricky": [5], }

def add_score(name, score):
    try:
        scoremap[name].append(score)
    except KeyError:
        scoremap[name] = [score]

add_score("Mary", 4)
add_score("Mary", 6)

def output_scores(name):
    try:
        for score in scoremap[name]:
            print "%s scored %s."%(name, score)
    except KeyError:
        print "No scores for %s."%name

name = raw_input("Whose scores do you want?: ")
output_scores(name)

print "----"

for name in scoremap:
     output_scores(name)
     print

Note that the use of a bare dictionary for scoremap is NOT necessarily the best option - In production code for this kind of design, I'd probably subclass dict and have add_score() and output_scores() as methods - something along the lines of:

class Scoremap(dict):
    def add_score(self, name, score):
        try:
            self[name].append(score)
        except KeyError:
            self[name] = [score]

    def output_scores(self, name):
        try:
            return "".join("%s scored %s.\n"%(name, score)
                                 for score in self[name])
        except KeyError:
            return "No scores for %s.\n"%name

    def __str__(self):
        return "\n".join(self.output_scores(name) 
                             for name in self)

myscores = Scoremap()
myscores.add_score("Chris", 3)
myscores.add_score("Chris", 4)
myscores.add_score("Andy", 5)
print myscores

But a better solution would probably be to have a Student class, and have each instance of Student store and output its own scores. You'd then have a Students class to store every student...
... but I'll leave that as an exercise for you to complete ;-)

--OH.

[monkeyman23555]

I only answered his question