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Re: Anyone know the solution

From Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Anyone know the solution
Date 2014-10-28 00:20 +0000
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:10:04 -0700, emmanueloje wrote:

> Write a program that reads the contents of the two files into two
> separate lists.

Yep, know how to do that

> The user should be able to enter a boy's name, a girl's
> name or both

Yep, know how to do that

> and the application will display messages
> indicating whether the names were among the most popular.

Nope, not sure how to do that, please define the algorithm for 
determining a "most popular name"

Determining if the name is in either of the lists is easy, know how to do 
that, but I'm not sure from your problem description if that's your 
definition of a "most popular name" or not.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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Anyone know the solution emmanueloje@gmail.com - 2014-10-27 08:10 -0700
  Re: Anyone know the solution alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-10-27 15:21 +0000
  Re: Anyone know the solution Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-10-27 11:20 -0400
  Re: Anyone know the solution Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-10-27 20:18 -0400
  Re: Anyone know the solution Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-10-28 00:20 +0000
  Re: Anyone know the solution alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2014-10-28 10:33 +1000
    Re: Anyone know the solution Anton <anton.schattenfeld@gmail.com> - 2014-10-28 18:28 -0700
      Re: Anyone know the solution alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2014-10-29 12:03 +1000
      Re: Anyone know the solution Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-10-29 18:13 +1300
        Re: Anyone know the solution Anton <anton.schattenfeld@gmail.com> - 2014-10-29 17:09 -0700
  Re: Anyone know the solution Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-10-28 00:24 -0400
    Re: Anyone know the solution "Mario R. Osorio" <nimbiotics@gmail.com> - 2014-10-28 08:38 -0700
  Re: Anyone know the solution ngangsia akumbo <ngangsia@gmail.com> - 2014-10-28 09:07 -0700
    Re: Anyone know the solution Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-10-29 11:53 +1100
    Re: Anyone know the solution Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-10-28 22:11 -0400
  Re: Anyone know the solution Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-10-29 18:03 +0000

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