I am working on a project for a python class, where we have to create a vin number look up tool. This code below works so far for country and year made. However I am having an issue with how I am indexing the user input.
Sometimes a country is the first two characters, and other times the country code is only the first character. I do not how to get around this problem, I tried using an if else kind of method while iterating through the dictionary, but it did not work.
class vinfo():
def __init__(self):
""" Get user input """
vin = input("Enter Vin: ")
""" Stupidity check """
unaccepted_chars = [
"-","/",".",","," ","?",
"^","$","*","(",")","[",
"]","{","}","@","!","_",
"+","'","=","|","#","<",
">","`","~","&"
]
for char in vin:
if char in unaccepted_chars:
vin = vin.replace(char, "")
else:
print("", end = "")
""" Length check and index """
if len(vin) == 17:
self.country_filt1 = vin[0]
self.country_filt2 = vin[0:2]
self.engine_filt = vin[7]
self.year_filt = vin[9]
self.manufact_filt = vin[1:3]
self.manufact_filt1 = vin[1:4]
else:
print("You must've entered something really stupid.\n(must be 17 characters, letters are uppercase)")
""" Vin Code Data """
# each manufacturer seems to have multiple vins for different car styles
# and for different countries
manufact_codes = {
"1G1":"Chevy",
"":"",
}
year_codes = {
"M":"2021","L":"2020","K":"2019",
"J":"2018","H":"2017","G":"2016",
"F":"2015","E":"2014","D":"2013",
"C":"2012","B":"2011","A":"2010",
"9":"2009","8":"2008","7":"2007",
"6":"2006","5":"2005","4":"2004",
"3":"2003","2":"2002","1":"2001",
"Y":"2000","X":"1999","W":"1998",
"V":"1997","T":"1996","S":"1995",
"R":"1994","P":"1993","N":"1992",
"M":"1991","L":"1990","K":"1989",
"J":"1988","H":"1987","G":"1986",
"F":"1985","E":"1984","D":"1983",
"C":"1982","B":"1981","A":"1980"
}
country_codes = {
"1": "USA",
"4": "USA",
"5": "USA",
"7F": "USA",
"3X": "Mexico",
"37": "Mexico",
"3A": "Canada",
"3W": "Canada",
"W": "Germany",
"SA": "United Kingdom",
"SM": "United Kingdom",
"J": "Japan",
"KL": "Korea",
"KR": "Korea"
}
engine_codes = {
}
""" Define the vehicles attributes using the find() function below """
self.year = self.find(self.year_filt, year_codes)[0]
# self.country = self.find(self.country_filt, country_codes)[0]
# self.manufact = self.find(self.manufact_filt, manufact_codes)
self.engine = self.find(self.engine_filt, engine_codes)
""" Find country (different lengths of country codes) """
for key, value in country_codes.items():
if key == self.country_filt1:
country = value
elif key == self.country_filt2:
country = value
else:
country = "Unsupported code"
""" Same for manufacturer """
for key, value in manufact_codes.items():
if key == self.manufact_filt:
manufact = value
elif key == self.manufact_filt1:
manufact = value
else:
manufact = "Unsupported code"
self.info = print(f"Year: {self.year}\nManufacturer: {manufact}\nCountry: {country}\nEngine: {self.engine}")
""" search through the dictionaries """
def find(self, filt, dict_of_codes):
try:
info = [value for key, value in dict_of_codes.items() if key == filt]
except:
info = "Unsupported"
if len(info) > 1:
info += " (Could be any of these)"
return info
