Creating Calculator type program.

Question

I play a silly game and am just tinkering around and am terrible at programming but I am trying to take a bunch of set values in the game and be able to take what I have in my inventory and calculate what I capable of doing with it.

for instance.

these are the attacks and you have to collect the right materials to do the attack.

comic hand requires - 1 duck, 1 plunger
shrink ray requires- 1 plier, 2 megaphone
rock monster- 1 hydrant, 1 binocular
tornado - 1 anvil, 1 propeller
magnet - 1 binocular, 2 hydrants, 2 anvil.

and so .....

I want the user to be able to input what they have in their inventory and the program spit out what attacks they have based on what materials they have.

since I am pretty bad at this. the code I have so far is super basic. I got the first one to work just using some math tricks. but the others will be difficult that way.

I think a dict with multiple keys would work but dont know how to do it.

here is what I have so far.

p = int(input('Enter Number of Plungers: '))
d = int(input('Enter Number of Ducks: '))
pl = int(input('Enter Number of Pliers: '))
m = int(input('Enter Number of Megaphones: '))
h = int(input('Enter Number of Hydrants: '))
bi = int(input('Enter Number of Binoculars: '))
a = int(input('Enter Number of Anvil: '))
pp = int(input('Enter Number of Propellers: '))
am = int(input('Enter Number of Ammo: '))
g = int(input('Enter Number of Gas: '))
b = int(input('Enter Number of Boots: '))

print("Plungers: ", p,"Ducks:", d, "Pliers: ",pl, "Megaphones:",m,"Hydrants:",h, "Binoculars:", bi, "Anvil:",a,"Propellers:",pp,"Ammo:",am,"Gas:",g,"Boots:",b)

if p >= d:
comichand = (p+d)-p
print("Number of Comic Hands: ", int(comichand))
elif p <= d:
comichand = (p+d)-d
print("Number of Comic Hands: ", int(comichand))

any help would be greatful. :)

Answer 1

Tip: Use a dictionary for storing the input and to ask for input use a for loop and iterate over the dictionary if you don’t know: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3294889/iterating-over-dictionaries-using-for-loops

Answer 2

yeah I have seen that and many many others.. I have more then 1 key per item to loop through then comes the adding the right things together. its not clear to me.

Answer 3

items = {"item1": 0, "item2": 0, "item3": 0}

# input
for key in items:
items[key] = int(input("{}: ".format(key)))
print() # new line

# display
for key in items:
print("{}: {}".format(key, items[key]))

Just add in the keys

Answer 4

but i have up to 3 keys per item..