Contact search: where am I messing up?

Question

contact = ""
contacts = [
('James', 42),
('Amy', 24),
('John', 31),
('Amanda', 63),
('Bob', 18)
]
for contact in contacts:
if contact == contacts[0]:
print (contacts[0] + " is " + (contacts[1]))
else:
print ("Not found")

Answer 1

You need a new variable to be what you are searching for. As you have written it, you are probably not getting the desired results. Make a new var for your input. inp = input(). Then replace contacts[0] in both places with inp. That lets you specify what you are search for. Then, because it’s an array. You’ll need to use contact as an array. So change contact to contact[0] inside the if statement. So it will read, if contact[0] == inp: and change that print statement as well so it uses inp and contact[0].

Answer 2

First step is to ask yourself what result you want to achieve with this code...