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[Hans Mulder]

On 10/01/13 19:35:40, kwakukwatiah at gmail.com wrote:
> pls this is a code to show the pay of two people.bt I want each of to be
> able to get a different money when they enter their user name,and to use
> it for about six people.
> database = [
>     ['Mac'],
>     ['Sam'],
>     ]
> pay1 = 1000
> pay2 = 2000
>  
> name = raw_input('Enter your name: ')
> if [name] in database:print "your pay is $",pay

How about:

database = dict(Mac=1000, Sam=2000, Eric=3000, Terry=4000, Graham=5000)

name = raw_input('Enter your name: ')
if name in database: print "Your pay is ${}".format(database[name])


Hope this helps,

-- HansM