have to provide is a question.
Once you have an instance representing a par-
ticular survey, you display the survey question with show_question(), store a
response using store_response(), and show results with show_results().
To show that the AnonymousSurvey class works, let’s write a program that
uses the class:
language from survey import AnonymousSurvey
_survey.py
# Define a question, and make a survey.
question = "What language did you first learn to speak?"
language_survey = AnonymousSurvey(question)
# Show the question, and store responses to the question.
language_survey.show_question()
print("Enter 'q' at any time to quit.\n")
while True:
response = input("Language: ")
if response == 'q':
break
language_survey.store_response(response)
# Show the survey results.
print("\nThank you to everyone who participated in the survey!")
language_survey.show_results()
This program defines a question ("What language did you first learn to
speak?") and creates an AnonymousSurvey object with that question. The program
calls show_question() to display the question and then prompts for responses.
Each response is stored as it is received. When all responses have been entered
(the user inputs q to quit), show_results() prints the survey results:
What language did you first learn to speak?
Enter 'q' at any time to quit.
Language: English
Language: Spanish
Language: English
Language: Mandarin
Language: q
Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!
Survey results:
- English
- Spanish
- English
- Mandarin
This class works for a simple anonymous survey, but say we want to
improve AnonymousSurvey and the module it’s in, survey. We could allow
each user to enter more than one response, we could write a method to
list only unique responses and to report how many times each response
was given, or we could even write another class to manage non-anonymous
surveys.
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