Python Mark book with multiple marks per student?

[Florrianer]

def markbook_list():

    names = []      
    marks = []      

    while True:     
        name = raw_input("Name: ")      
      
        if name == "exit":      
            break
        elif name == "print":     
            print "Name" + "      " + "Mark"
            for x in range(len(names)):
                print names[x] + "     " + marks[x]
        else:
            names.append(name)      
            mark = raw_input("Mark: ")      
            marks.append(mark)

1)Write a markbook application to read in, store and print out the marks for students

I already did number 1 as you can see.
How would one change the code so that it prompts the user for multiple marks per student?

[dwblas]

You would use another while loop and append marks to a list until the user enters "exit" or some character that exits the loop. You might possibly want to use a list of lists, i.e
[[name1, mark1, mark2],
[name2, mark1, mark2, mark3]] or a dictionary. The following is pseudo-code and will not work perfectly as is.

        else:
             if len(interim_list):
                 master_list.append(interim_list)
             interim_list=[name]  ## redefine it as new name only      
             #names.append(name)
             mark = raw_input("Mark: ")      
             interim_list.append(mark)