Expense calculator

[Deathwing]

Hi everyone one I'm playing around with trying to make an expense calculator.
I would like it so that the user can keep enter expenses until they have no more expenses. Then I would like for the program to give the users total expenses then subtract this from their total income and inform them how much they have left after monthly expenses. Any ideas ? this is what I've come up with thus far.

# Expense calculator
# This program calculates your total monthly expenses


#print"\a"

print\
       """
                        #-----------------#
                        |Montly Expense   |
                        |Calculator 1.0   |
                        #-----------------#
                        
 Welcome to Monthly Expense Calculator 1.0 this calculator
 will ask you a series of questions relating to your monthly
 expenses. It will then calculate your total montly income
 against your expenses and tell you how much of  your take
 home pay you are spending.
       """

print " You have the following options:"

print "\n To enter an expense type '1' otherwise type '2' for no more expenses."

options = ( 'espense = 1', 'noexpense = 2')

while True:

    choice = int(raw_input("\nWould you like to enter a monthly expense?"))

    if choice == 1:
        expense = (raw_input("\nEnter expense name"))
        cost = float(raw_input("\nEnter total monthly cost of this expense."))
    elif  choice == 2:
        raw_input("\nPress enter to exit.")
        break

[ilikepython]

Hi everyone one I'm playing around with trying to make an expense calculator.
I would like it so that the user can keep enter expenses until they have no more expenses. Then I would like for the program to give the users total expenses then subtract this from their total income and inform them how much they have left after monthly expenses. Any ideas ? this is what I've come up with thus far.

# Expense calculator
# This program calculates your total monthly expenses


#print"\a"

print\
       """
                        #-----------------#
                        |Montly Expense   |
                        |Calculator 1.0   |
                        #-----------------#
                        
 Welcome to Monthly Expense Calculator 1.0 this calculator
 will ask you a series of questions relating to your monthly
 expenses. It will then calculate your total montly income
 against your expenses and tell you how much of  your take
 home pay you are spending.
       """

print " You have the following options:"

print "\n To enter an expense type '1' otherwise type '2' for no more expenses."

options = ( 'espense = 1', 'noexpense = 2')

while True:

    choice = int(raw_input("\nWould you like to enter a monthly expense?"))

    if choice == 1:
        expense = (raw_input("\nEnter expense name"))
        cost = float(raw_input("\nEnter total monthly cost of this expense."))
    elif  choice == 2:
        raw_input("\nPress enter to exit.")
        break

I'm not exactly sure what you are saying but you might be able to use a dictionary to store the data of the expenses.For example, enter the expense name into the key and make the value the monthly cost.

[ghostdog74]

using dictionaries might not be suitable for this application as users might want to save data on disk. so another way is to use pickle/shelve or dbm databases. (other others).

[bartonc]

using dictionaries might not be suitable for this application as users might want to save data on disk. so another way is to use pickle/shelve or dbm databases. (other others).

I thought that pickling worked on dictionaries. Am I wrong about this?

[ghostdog74]

I thought that pickling worked on dictionaries. Am I wrong about this?

no, you are not wrong. what i meant in my previous post is, if OP uses just pure dictionaries, whatever data modification to expenses stored in dictionaries will be gone once the program exits. So its good to use some [ pickling/shelving/dbm/files ] to save information to disk so that the expenses can be "remembered " next time the application is used.

[Deathwing]

Thanks guys I'll look into your suggestions. I appreicate the help.