Data Abstraction Team Teach • 2 min read

people = {
    "Tanay": 16,
    "Noah Simon": 18,
    "Arnav Nadar": 15,
    "Tarun": 14,
    "Maria Branyas": 116
}

negative = {
    "Bobby": -232,
    "Tristan": -1,
    "Mark": -12
}

def oldest_person(people):
    # Setting up the variables
    oldest = 0
    oldest_ppl = ""
    for person, age in people.items():
        ## IF the person's age is greater than all of the previous ages, then replace oldest with their age
        if age > oldest:
            oldest = age
            oldest_ppl = person
        ## if the person's age is less than 0, then tell the person negative ages don't exist. I needed to use an elif statement because an else statement would run between toby and ian and count them as negative because toby > ian
        elif age < 0:
            return "You can't have negative ages..."
    return str(oldest_ppl) + " is the oldest person at " + str(oldest) + " years old"

# Code so that I can print both at the same time
result1 = oldest_person(people)
result2 = oldest_person(negative)

print(result1)
print(result2)

Maria Branyas is the oldest person at 116 years old
You can't have negative ages...