#  Sentence.py  Copyright (c) Kari Laitinen

#  http://www.naturalprogramming.com

#  2006-05-27  File created.
#  2022-12-16  Converted to Python 3.

#  The corresponding Java and C++ programs show some strange
#  aspects related to switch-case constructs. Because Python does
#  not provide switch-case constructs, this is quite an
#  unnecessary program. However, I whote this program so that
#  it behaves almost like the corresponding program in the Java
#  book.

print( "\n Type in L, M, or S, depending on whether you want"  \
      "\n a long, medium, or short sentence displayed: ", end="" )

character_from_keyboard  =  input().upper()

complete_sentence  =   \
    [  "\n This is a ",
       "switch statement in a \n ",
       "program in a ",
       "book that teaches Java programming. ",
       "\n I hope that this is an interesting book.\n "  ]

if  character_from_keyboard  ==  'S'  :

   complete_sentence.pop( 1 )  #  remove second string from the list
   complete_sentence.pop( 1 )  #  remove also the new second string

elif  character_from_keyboard  ==  'M'  :

   complete_sentence.pop( 1 )

for part_of_sentence  in  complete_sentence  :

   print( part_of_sentence, end="" )

print( "\n" )