Exercise: Business card – Hands-on Computer Science

Download as a script python-exercise-business-card.py with the task as comments, to run in VS Code or Positron

Task

Write a program that asks for a name, a subject and a city, one after the other, and makes a small business card from them. The name should appear in capitals, subject and city with capital initials, and extra spaces at the start or end of an input should disappear. A line of 30 equals signs closes off the card at the top and bottom.

What it should look like

With the inputs ada lovelace, mathematics and london the program prints:

Name:   ada lovelace
Subject: mathematics
City: london
==============================
  ADA LOVELACE
  Mathematics · London
==============================

Your program

The skeleton already asks for the name. Add the rest and try it with different inputs, including deliberately sloppy ones.

name = input("Name: ")

# Ask for subject and city.

# Print the card.

SHOW HINT 1

The methods from the lesson can be chained: input("Name: ").strip().upper() reads, tidies up and capitalises, all in one line. You get the line with "=" * 30.

SHOW HINT 2

For the second line of the card, an f-string puts both values together with the dot in between: f" {course} · {city}".

SHOW THE SOLUTION

name = input("Name: ").strip().upper()
course = input("Subject: ").strip().title()
city = input("City: ").strip().title()

line = "=" * 30
print(line)
print(f"  {name}")
print(f"  {course} · {city}")
print(line)

The line is stored in a variable because it is needed twice. If the card should get wider, you change the number in one place only.

For the quick ones

Make the line exactly as long as the longest line of the card. The function max returns the largest of several numbers, for example max(len(a), len(b)).