17.2. Making MadLib Stories, Easier

You might recall this example from earlier in this section of the book.

# initialize the variables firstName = "Pat" lastName = "Smith" gender = "girl" address = "65 Elm Street" verb = "eat" # create the story start = "Once there was a " + gender + " named " + firstName + "." next1 = "A good " + gender + " living at " + address + "." next2 = "One day, a wicked witch came to the " + lastName + " house." next3 = "The wicked witch was planning to " + verb + " " + firstName + "!" ending = "But " + firstName + " was smart and avoided the wicked witch." # print the story print(start) print(next1) print(next2) print (next3) print(ending)

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What if we want to change this story? We can change the values for firstName, lastName, gender, address, and verb. But, if we change each of these we are changing 5 lines. Is there another way to do this? What if we want to specify the values like this inputs="Pat,Smith,boy,65 Elm Street,eat"? Can we do that?

Sure, we can – if we can take that string apart. The computer knows how to break larger pieces of data into smaller ones.

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