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)

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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