Activity 3.2.2 - Social Media Posts

Work through Activity 3.2.2 here. You will learn about using classes and objects and completing some code to make a simple social media posting platform.

"""
This program is intended as a tracer round for the flow of control as a user
of a social media account makes, deletes, and edits posts. For testing,
a user should be able to enter their user name, change which user name they
are currently using, add a post using their current user name, remove a post
made under their current user name, edit a post made under their current user 
name, print the contents of the list of posts, or quit the program.
"""

#This line of code tells the Python interpreter that it needs to reference the 
#post.py file in order to run the rest of the code in this file.
from CSE_322_post import Post

# How will you save the posts you will create? Review the for loop near the end of this code for an answer.
post_list = []
# What is the user name they want to use?
user_name = raw_input("What is your user name?")
# Welcome user to the program 
print 'Welcome to our Social Media Experiment, ' + user_name + '. Do not attempt to resist. Resistance is futile.'
#Store initial user input in a variable identified by user_input

#You may need to use this statement again to complete the activity.

user_input = raw_input(""" What would you like to do?
"add" - Add a post to the archive
"remove" - Remove a post from the archive
"change user" - Change the user name associated with any future posts
"print" - Display the current up to date list of all posts
"quit" - End the program

""")


#Where are we posting to in this code. Review the end of this code for an answer.

#What is the user name they want to use?

#This while loop ensures that the program will continue executing statements
# at the next indentation level until the user types "quit" in response to the 
# prompt.
while user_input != "quit":

    #code for adding a post here
    if user_input == 'add':
        message = raw_input('What would you like to post?')
        post_list.append(Post(user_name, message))
    #code for removing a post here
    #code for changing the current user here
    #code to display all posts, you can use the code in comments below
    if user_input == 'print':
	# this for loop will print the index of the element in the list
	# and the element itself
        for post in post_list:
            print post

    #code to inform the user that their input was not valid here
    
#Code that will allow the user to make a new selection
    user_input = raw_input(""" What would you like to do?
"add" - Add a post to the archive
"remove" - Remove a post from the archive
"change user" - Change the user name associated with any future posts
"print" - Display the current up to date list of all posts
"quit" - End the program

""")
#This code will finish the loop

Test your code to make sure it works. Add comments to your code to explain the parts.

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1. Share your workspace with me (nnolte@fvlhs.org) if you have not yet.
2. Copy the URL of your workspace and put it in the subnmission below.
3. Download the Python file and submit it here.