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Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Mar 28 17:08:20 EST 2000 
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"InCoGniTo" <josephb at zip.com.au> wrote in message
news:8bn3gj$7qh$1 at the-fly.zip.com.au...

> I'm trying to write a program which does basic bank functions and I have
a
> problem that I can not get it to read my list to see if there is a match
in
> a name so that the prgram can identify whos account it is. Can someone
> please try and help me.

Let's start with some improvements for your code.

def login():
    #  delete multiple print statements and instead print 1 multiline
string
    print '''\
Welcome to Account System.

You now have to login the user to access the account.

'''
    # use raw_input(prompt) for data
    # note: str(sys.stdin.readline()) is redundant since readline() returns
string
    fn = raw_input( 'Please enter the customers First name')
    ln = raw_input('Please enter the customers Last name')
        for item in customer_list:
            if item.firstname == fn and item.lastname == ln:
                current_person = item
                print 'You have succesfully Logged in, now transfering to
account systems menu\n
                # note that you do not need separate print statement for
extra \n
                time.sleep(3)
                accountmenu()
                break # I added this - once match is found, stop looping
                # if current_person  == None: # broken since indented to
execute within loop
                # instead of after and since current_person not
initialized.  Replace this with below
        else:
            print 'Sorry account records are not present in system records'
            print 'Going back to level 1'
            print 'Loading, please wait ...'
            time.sleep(2)
            print '\n'
            welcome_verfication()
# this sort of construction -- break loop on match, else do non-match
action
# is precisely what else-after-for is meant for.

> There are many other fucntions and classes, for instance customer_list is
my
> list:). I don't get any errors the program just stops and qoutes me the
> module.

Does replacement of broken mismatch test fix problem?
If not, what is last statement executed?
If necessary, add print statements to determine this.

'quotes me the module': what does this mean?

Terry J. Reedy
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