如何读取用户的输入，搜索预先制作的字符串列表，然后在 Python 中返回匹配的内容？

Question

def prompter():

users_note = 'The distance between my accommodation and the campus is roughly two miles, with five tube stations in between.'
note_list = users_note.split()
i = 0

for users_voice in note_list:
    if users_voice == note_list[i]:
        users_voice = input('Enter words you gonna say next: ').split()
        print(note_list[i])
        i += 1
    else:
        print('Sorry, try again')

I am trying to create a small teleprompter prototype program that is able to return the content from the user's note every time a user says something, as long as it's within the pre-made list of strings.

So what the answer should return when calling this function should be:

>>> Enter words you gonna say next: my
>>> ‘my’

>>> Enter words you gonna say next: accommodation
>>> ‘accommodation’

>>> Enter words you gonna say next: roughly two miles
>>> ‘roughly two miles’

>>> Enter words you gonna say next: distance campus stations
>>> ‘distance campus stations’

>>> Enter words you gonna say next: foo
>>> ‘Sorry, try again’

When the user is trying to type a word that's not from that pre-made list of strings, the function will keep asking users until they've entered the correct input.

However, I am not entirely sure how to come with such an algorithm/solution, I managed to implement it myself but the function didn't seem to return the output as expected, can someone here suggest a fix?

Answer 1

The question (or the intention of the question) is not 100% clear, but may you can use this, to run an endless loop to ask for new words. You can end the loop by CTRL + C :

def prompter():
    users_note = 'The distance between my accommodation and the campus is roughly two miles, with five tube stations in between.'
    note_list = users_note.split()  # Be careful, that you have a dot after the last word !

    while True:  # Endless loop
        words = input('Enter words you gonna say next: ').split()
        for word in words:  # For each word in input list
            if word not in note_list:
                print('Sorry, try again', end="")
                break  # ends the for loop
            else:
                print(word, end=" ")
        print()
        # Here you can add a condition to end the loop (maybe after 3 wrong inputs), to end the loop you can use 'break'