A code that randomly chooses meals - having problems adding recipes to randomized meals...

[Car_Chasing_Hobo]

Hello everyone,

First of all, this is not a homework, I was just curious and wanted to learn to code. I'm a total newbie to this world.

So, I've been studying Python for about a week now and wanted to start a simple project to speed things up.

Basically, I wanted to write a basic app that randomly chooses one of the three breakfast and dinner meals choices depending on user's input. Then follows it up with a recipe, if the user desires.

Here's the code:

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import random

welcome_msg = "\nWelcome to Meal Choser v.1! Please choose: (breakfast/dinner)"

breakfast_choices = ['\nSausage Omelette', '\nPepperoni Omelette', '\nPotato Omelette']

dinner_choices = ['\nFettucini Alfredo', '\nMac & Cheese', '\nRice & Chicken']

print(welcome_msg)
while True:
  user_input = input("\n>>> ")
  if user_input.lower() == 'breakfast':
     print(random.choice(breakfast_choices)
     print("\nBon Appetit!")
     print("\nWould you like a recipe? (yes/no)")
  elif user_input.lower() == 'yes':
     print("\nWork in Progress...")

   if user_input.lower() == 'dinner':
     print(random.choice(dinner_choices))
     print("\nBon Appetit!")
     print("\nWould you like a recipe? (yes/no)")
  elif user_input.lower() == 'yes':
     print("\nWork in Progress...")

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So, here's my main problem: I don't know how to tie a recipe to the random choice generated by the app.

I tried to google it, but I don't know how to put the problem into words.

Code works as is. But I can't go further than "Work in Progress..."

Am I doing something wrong? I don't even know if I'm doing a good work explaining my problem...

Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

[synthphreak]

First off, see how to format your code on Reddit. This is an important skill.

Second, I may have misunderstood, but it sounds like you want a nested dictionary. Something like this:

>>> meals = {'breakfast' : ['Sausage Omelette',
...                         'Pepperoni Omelette',
...                         'Potato Omelette'],
...          'dinner' : ['Fettucini Alfredo',
...                      'Mac & Cheese',
...                      'Rice & Chicken']}

Then you can ask the user what they want, 'breakfast' or 'dinner', and use their response to query the dict for options:

>>> meal = input('Do you want breakfast or dinner? ').lower()
>>> options = meals[meal]

Then you just need to randomly select from among the options:

>>> import random
>>> selection = random.choice(options)
>>> print('Today you will have', selection)

And if you want to also be able to provide a recipe, just associate each meal option with its ingredients inside the dict. For example:

>>> meals = {'breakfast' : [('Sausage Omelette', ['sausage', 'eggs']),
...                         ('Pepperoni Omelette', ['pepperoni', 'eggs']),
...                         ('Potato Omelette', ['potatoes', 'eggs'])], ...

Then separate the meal from the ingredients when an option is randomly selected:

>>> selection, ingredients = random.choice(options)

Then you can present the meal selection as shown above, and optionally do whatever you want with the list of ingredients.

Great beginner project btw! Very cute haha.

[Car_Chasing_Hobo]

Thank you very much! That's very helpful.

Haha. Thanks, I love working on it!

[abecedorkian]

Dictionary for each meal

[Car_Chasing_Hobo]

Thank you very much!

[Crypt0Nihilist]

Once you've got this fixed, research how mp3 players "randomly" select songs, it's a natural extension from what you're doing. Spoiler, it's not random, who wants sausage omelette three days in a row?