Lecture 7_2: Lists and mutability, dictionaries, pseudocode, introduction to efficiency

# example code, Lecture 7, Fall 2008

import math

#get base
inputOK = False
while not inputOK:
    base = float(input('Enter base:'))
    #we get str in python 3x from input, we need to convert str to float.
    if type(base) == type(1.0): inputOK = True
    else: print('Enter, Base must be a floating point number.')

#get height
inputOK = False
while not inputOK:
    height = float(input('Enter height:'))
    if type(height) == type(1.0): inputOK = True
    else: print('Error, Height must be a floating point number.')

hyp = math.sqrt(base*base + height*height)

print ('Base:' + str(base) + '.height:' + str(height) + '.hyp:' + str(hyp))

import math

def getFloat(requestMsg, errorMsg):
    inputOK = False
    while not inputOK:
        Val = input(requestMsg)
        if type(Val)  == type(1.0): inputOK = True
        else: print(errorMsg)
    return Val

base = getFloat('Enter base:', 'Error: base must be a float')
height = getFloat('Enter height:', 'Error: height must be a float')

hyp = math.sqrt(base*base + height*height)
print ('Base:' + str(base) + '.height:' + str(height) + '.hyp:' + str(hyp))

# get base
inputOK = False
while not inputOK:
    try:
        # user can pass 'inf', 'nan', no error will be raised
        # should we check this cases?
        base = float(input('Enter base:'))
    except ValueError:
        print('Base must be an integer or floating point number.')
    else:
        inputOK = True