Comparing sales and purchases
If statements let you branch your code to take different actions depending on the state of your data. Imagine you are working at a small firm trying to keep the number items sold in balance with those purchased. You are supplied with two lists, purchases
, which contains items purchased, and sales
, which contains items sold. Use if
statements to compare the two lists.
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate Python for Finance
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Get number of purchases
num_purchases = len(purchases)
# Get number of sales
num_sales = ____(sales)
# Check if more sales than purchases
____ num_purchases < num_sales:
print('buy more')