21.4. 👩‍💻 Clean Up

Congrats! We’ve solved the problem now, but our code isn’t very nice to read. We can clean it up now and remove the print statements.

# initialize a dictionary user_dictionary = {} # write a for loop that will iterate five times. I can use the range function for this! for _ in range(5): # in the for loop, I should ask for input from the user response = input("Please enter two words to add to a dictionary. The first word is the definition, the second will be the word associated with it.") # next, I should separate the words separated_response = response.split() response_key = separated_response[0] response_value = separated_response[1] # finally, I should add the key value pair to the dictionary user_dictionary[response_key] = response_value

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We can also fix the comments so that they aren’t so obvious.

user_dictionary = {} # asks a user for two words to add to the user dictionary - will do this five times. # the first word will be the key, the second word will be the value. for _ in range(5): response = input("Please enter two words to add to a dictionary. The first word is the definition, the second will be the word associated with it.") separated_response = response.split() response_key = separated_response[0] response_value = separated_response[1] user_dictionary[response_key] = response_value

At this point, the code has been cleaned up fully - you could easily write the comments in a different way but this should be easy for other programmers to understand, and ourselves to understand if we come back to the code days, weeks, or months later!

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