CSE 110: Introduction to Programming

Sample Solution

The following shows one way to solve this problem. It is not the only way this problem can be solved.

prepare_people_sample.py

"""
Author: Brother Burton

Purpose: Practice finding items in lists.
"""

people = [
    "Stephanie 36",
    "John 29",
    "Emily 24",
    "Gretchen 54",
    "Noah 12",
    "Penelope 32",
    "Michael 2",
    "Jacob 10"
]

# Start our youngest_age variable at something larger than anyone we'll find
youngest_age = 9999

# This will keep track of the person with the youngest age
youngest_name = ""

# Go through each person in the list
for person_line in people:

    parts = person_line.split() # by default this will split on the space

    # Set variables for the two different parts
    name = parts[0]
    age = int(parts[1])

    # Check to see if this current person is younger than the youngest
    # that we have seen so far
    if age < youngest_age:
        # This person is the new "youngest"

        # Save their age as the new youngest
        youngest_age = age

        # Save their name as the youngest name
        youngest_name = name

# Outside of the loop, so we are all done now
print(f"The youngest person is: {youngest_name} with an age of {youngest_age}")

Download: prepare_people_sample.py