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Write a program which requests that requests a product name and a stock number . Store that data in a List or a Dictionary . After the user has entered data, request that the user enters Y or N to continue. If they enter N, print the list of products and stock numbers to the screen. If they enter Y, repeat the first step.

Your program should produce the following result:

Stock Manager

Product Name: Widgets
Stock Level: 14
Widgets has been entered with a stock of 14 products.

Do you wish to enter another record? (Y/N) Y

Product Name: Fidgets
Stock Level: 22
Fidgets has been entered with a stock of 22 products.

Do you wish to enter another record? (Y/N) N

Product Stock

Widgets 14
Fidgets 22

Hi the above is my assignment.
However, I have no idea what it really want me to do… as I only learn things from codeacademy
The most confusing is that how to make a request for entry data and how to proceed to show the data on the screen?
Any hit for me be to very appreciated. Thanks

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If this is an assignment from some sort of course you’re taking, then the course must have covered the topics of prompting a user for input as well as printing output, no?

Regarding “requesting” input from the user you’ll want to use Python’s built-in input function (see https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#input).

Regarding printing, use the built-in print function (see https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#print).

Here’s a bit of pseudo-code to help out:

repeat = True
inventory = an empty dictionary

while repeat:
    product = request input for "Product Name: "
    stock = request input for "Stock Level: " and convert to an integer
    add product with stock to inventory
    print message "<product> has been entered with a stock of <stock> products."
    repeat = request input for "Do you wish to enter another record? (Y/N) " in ['y', 'Y']

print "Product Stock"

for each product, stock in inventory:
  print product and stock

See also the int function (https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#int) and dictionaries (https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries)

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cheers bro!
You made me a day, really.