So as part of LPHW i’m making some very basic list based programs. Here I have one that lists friends in order of ‘bestness’ with position 0 being the best friend.
I allow the user to introduce a new friend and if they say that friend is a new best friend i place that friend at position one.
Since the the 0 position of the list is assigned to variable bestFriend, I expected bestFriend to reflect the new list but it holds the old value. I have to rewrite out the variable again to ‘refresh’ it as it were.
Am curious why this is. Any help much appreciated!
favFriends = ["bob", "raj", "russell"]
print("Your friends are ", favFriends)
bestFriend = favFriends[0]
print("Your best friend is ", bestFriend)
print("You've met a new friend!")
newFriend = input("What is your new friend's name? ")
newBestie = input("Are they your new best friend? y/n ")
if "y" in newBestie:
favFriends.insert(0, newFriend)
else: pass
#why do i need this??? bestFriend = favFriends[0]
print("Your friends are ", favFriends)
print("Your best friend is ", bestFriend)