HELP! I've been working on this assignment for a while and can't get it to work. It's supposed to pull contact info from a text file, and then return it. Every time I try to run it , it returns "no entry found" no matter what.
HELP!
Declare constants
lastname = 1
firstname = 2
phonenumber = 3
QUIT = 0
choice = 7
#define main
def main():
my_file = 'entries.txt'
fileInput = open('entries.txt','r')
lastname =[]
firstname =[]
phonenumber =[]
count = 1
for line in fileInput:
line= line.strip()
line = line.lower ()
if count % 3 ==1:
lastname.append(line)
elif count % 3 ==2:
firstname.append (line)
else:
phonenumber.append(line)
count = count + 1
print(lastname)
print(firstname)
print(phonenumber)
#define menu funtion
def menu():
print("1.) Lookup contact by last name")
print("2.) Lookup contact by first name")
print("3.) Look up contact by phone number")
print("0.) Quit")
menu()
choice= int(input("Enter a menu option"))
if choice == 1:
def looklast (lastname, firstname, phonenumber):
name = input("Enter the last name for look up: ")
name = name.lower()
name = name.strip
pointer = 0
if name in lastname:
while True:
try:
pointer = lastname.index(name, pointer)
print (firstname [pointer].title())
print (lastname [pointer].title())
print (phonenumber [pointer] .title()),
pointer = pointer +1
except:
break
else:
print("No entry found")
looklast(lastname, firstname, phonenumber)
elif choice == 2:
def lookfirst(lastname, firstname, phonenumber):
name= input("enter the first name for lookup:")
name = name.lower()
name = name.strip()
pointer=0
if name in firstname:
while True:
try:
pointer = firstname.index (fname, pointer)
print(firstname[pointer].title())
print(lastname[pointer].title())
print(phonenumber[pointer].title())
pointer = pointer + 1
except:
break
else:
print ("No entry found")
lookfirst(lastname, firstname, phonenumber)
elif choice == 3:
def phonelook(lastname, firstname, phonenumber):
number = input("Enter the phone number for look up: ")
pointer = 0
if number in phonenumber:
while True:
try:
pointer = number. index (number, pointer)
print(firstname [pointer].title())
print(lastname [pointer].title())
print (phonenumber [pointer].title())
pointer = pointer +1
phonelook(lastname, firstname, phonenumber)
except:
break
else:
print("No entry found")
phonelook(lastname ,firstname, phonenumber)
elif choice == 0:
print("You chose to quit")
else:
print("Error")
fileInput.close()
main()
