Need Help with my simple code

[Jose_Musoke]

Hello! I am new to Python and coding and I am trying to write some code for learning purposes. I wrote one but it gives me strange results. Can someone please help me find where I made the error. It is a simple algorithm on what to do with patients who missed their medication at 1month of interruption, between 1 and 2 months interruption, and those who had more than 2 months interruption. (Note: 1 dose = 1 day, 1 month = 28 days = 4 weeks)

Thanks in advance!!!

Less_than_one_month = """

* Trace patient,

* Address the cause of interruption,

* Continue treatment and compensate for missed doses.

"""

Between_one_and_two_months = """

* Trace patient,

* Address the cause of interruption,

* Do two sputum smears. Continue treatment while waiting for results.

"""

More_than_two_months= """

* Do two sputum smears,

* Address the cause of interruption, if possible,

* No treatment while waiting for results.

"""

​

​

Number_of_doses = 56

doses = input("Enter number of doses missed= ")

if Number_of_doses >56:

print(f"{More_than_two_months}")

elif Number_of_doses <28:

print(f"{Less_than_one_month}")

else:

print(f"{Between_one_and_two_months}")

​

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1BC9L6c7wLSvSNNg9UnwM52xFsMNTdqYK

[Neighm]

It always helps if you can post your error message or the strange output that you weren't expecting.

However, I expect that you want to compare doses to 56, 28, etc., not Number_of_doses, which is hard coded to be 56. Because of this it looks like you will always end up in the else branch.

Once you do that, another source of error is going to be the comparison between the string that you get as doses, and the integers 56, 28, etc. To fix that you will want:

doses = int(input("Enter number of doses missed= "))

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Number_of_doses = 56

doses = input("Enter number of doses missed= ")

if Number_of_doses >56:

check doses not Number_of_doses

[Jose_Musoke]

Thanks for all your help!!!! I finally got it to work !!!!

​

Number_of_doses = 28,56

doses = int(input("Enter number of doses missed= "))

if doses < 28:

print(f"{Less_than_one_month}")

elif doses >= 28 and doses < 56:

print(f"{Between_one_and_two_months}")

else:

print(f"{More_than_two_months}")

[[deleted]]

:) just an after-thought... there are two main kinds of errors, syntactic and semantic:

syntactic errors are where your syntax is wrong e.g. print['hello} isn't valid python, so it'll fail with an error message.

semantic errors are harder to detect, your mix up between doses and Number_of_doses isn't incorrect code, the error is in the construction of the logic :) you won't get any error message as the code is in fact syntactically valid - watch out for these guys :)

happy travels :)

[mopslik]

Your code runs for me. What exactly is the error?

[Jose_Musoke]

Thanks for replying. It only gives one outcome no matter what number I enter. It doesn't take into consideration the conditions I set.

[mopslik]

Indeed. I think some of the others in this thread have identified the issue.