Question

I am working on making a simple gradebook. How it works is it asks user for name and grade. It does this for multiple instances until the person types quit to end the program. The code I have here works. My question is how do I print the output in alphabetical order?

Output from the input I put into my program:

David 98

Annabelle 87

Josh 91

Ben 95

What I want my code to do (in alphabetical order):

Annabelle87

Ben 95

David 98

Josh 91

Here is my code for the program:

grades = {}

def set_grade(name, grade):
grades[name] = grade

def print_grades_names():
for i in grades.keys():
print('{} {}'.format(i, str(grades[i])))

while True:
name = input("Enter a name (or 'quit' to stop): ")
if name == 'quit':
break
grade = input("Enter a grade: ")
set_grade(name, grade)

(print_grades_names())

Answer 1

Please look at my code and in case of indentation issues check the screenshots.

---------------main.py-------------------------

grades = {}

def set_grade(name, grade):
   grades[name] = grade

def print_grades_names():
   for i in sorted(grades.keys()):                       #use sorted, to sort the keys(names)
       print('{} {}'.format(i, str(grades[i])))       #print name and grade

while True:
   name = input("Enter a name (or 'quit' to stop): ")
   if name == 'quit':
       break
   grade = input("Enter a grade: ")
   set_grade(name, grade)

print_grades_names()

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