Using a Python module-CodePudding

I am trying to import the students.py module and call it in another to print out values of the dictionary in that module but it is not working. Where am I going wrong?

Here is students.py

def person1():
  student1 = {
  "name": "Joe",
  "major": "Programming",
  "format": "Campus Live"
  }

Here is the file am calling that module from

import students
x = students.person1("major")
y = students.person1("name")
print(x)
print(y)

I would like it to print the major which is programming and name Joe. They are 2 different .py files remember. Am still new to python

CodePudding user response：

It would be helpful, to also post the error.

(I am also new to python).

But your person1() is a function, but has no return value. I think, what you're looking for, is a class.

class person():
  def __init__(self, name, major, format_):
    self.name = name
    self.major = major
    self.format_ = format_

p1 = person("John", "Programming", "Campus Live")


print(p1.name)
print(p1.major)
print(p1.format_)

this return:

John
Programming 
Campus Live

Adapted from here: https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_classes.asp

Maybe some other people go a bit more into detail, but maybe this helps you to find the correct answer, you're looking for

EDIT:

Or if you have a list of predefined students, you can go for a (nested) dictionary:

students = {
  "student1" : {
  "name": "Joe",
  "major": "Programming",
  "format": "Campus Live"
  },
   "student2" : {
   "name" : "Jane",
   "major" : "Economics",
   "format" : "Offline Campus"}
}

print(students["student1"]["name"])
print(students["student1"]["major"])
print(students["student1"]["format"])

best Christian

CodePudding user response：

You are passing values to a function but it doesn't really take arguments right now. Also you are trying to get any values from a function which doesn't return any values when you call it, so you need to add return keyword with needed value from a dictionary.

So here is the code that will make your function working as you want

def person1(name):
  student1 = {
  "name": "Joe",
  "major": "Programming",
  "format": "Campus Live"
  }
  return student1[name]