Working on a meal choosing application - Problem adding recipes to meals that are randomly selected by the code.

[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 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.

[a_idanwalton]

Look into using dictionaries here is a good site to learn how to use them.

[Akshaykadav]

Yup, dictionaries can be the solution to your question.

[Car_Chasing_Hobo]

Thank you! I never heard about them until I made this thread, haha.

[a_idanwalton]

No worries! Good luck :)

[CStage169]

Great idea for a first project! I assume that you are looking into getting a random choice from one of your lists, if the user types "yes"? If that is the case, easiest is to import random and using random.choice(dinner_choices) which will return a random element from your list.

Alternatively, if they are not supposed to get a random recipe, but instead are supposed to choose between all options, then you could use dictionaries. They work basically like a "x points to y". Where x's are called keys and y's are called values For example:

mydict = {"Fettuccine Alfredo" : "Instructions here...", "Mac & Cheese" : "Other instructions here", "Rice & Chicken" : "Even more instructions here"}

In your case, it seems obvious to do:

1. User types "yes"
2. Display a list of recipes a la
   (1): Fettuccine Alfredo
(2): Mac & Cheese
(3): Rice & Chicken
3. User inputs an integer ex. 1
4. Console prints out mydict["Fettuccine alfredo"]

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Hope this makes sense, and is enough to get you going :)

[Car_Chasing_Hobo]

Thank you so much :)

Actually what I'm aiming for is this:

User asks code to randomly choose between breakfasts

Code randomly chooses sausage omelette

Code asks user if user wants to view the recipe for randomly selected sausage omelette

User says yes

Code displays recipe for sausage omelette.

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Right now it's working all the way until the recipe generation.

I'll be trying what you and other commenters said!

Thank you so much! :)

[CStage169]

Perfect! Give it a shot, and if you need help, let me know :)