Reference generator. How can I collect users input into a list?-CodePudding

I'm new to Python and I have started my first project. I want to make a reference generator. However, I have faced a problem with authors name. Right now my code can accept and obtain only one author (name and surname), but I want it to be able to collect a few authors. I am struggling to find a logic that will help me to collect few authors names and save them into a list.

I will try to explain it with an example:

authors_name = input('Enter authors name: ')
question = input('Add another author? [Yes | No]: ')

while question.lower() = 'yes':
new_author = input('Enter authors name: ')

This is the part where I'm stuck. How can I make my program to remember the first entered name and the names that will come after that? I suppose I should use lists or smthng.

Thanks in advance

CodePudding user response：

Try something like this:

list_of_authors = []
question = lambda: input('Add another author? [Yes | No]: ').lower()

while True:
    author_name = input("Enter author name: ")
    list_of_authors  = [author_name]
    if question() == "no":
        break

CodePudding user response：

It's unfriendly to require people to answer an extra question. Just keep asking for more names until they press "enter".

print( "Press enter to stop entering names." )
authors = []
while True:
    authors_name = input('Enter authors name: ')
    if not authors_name:
        break
    authors.append( authors_name )

print( "The list I got was", authors )