How to create a pension calculator?

[Johan Ericsson]

Hi guys,
Im using windows 7 and python 2.7.

I need to read in info from a file in the format:
name/age/amount
for example: johan/20/1000

Then for example if you have 1000$ and the growth 5% for 20 years it would be 1000*1.05^20.

The only thing that isnt read from the file is the interest which is read from a raw_input.

This is the code I have so far and im kind of stuck now on how to get it working. I am not very good with classes and objects...

import math
 
class Pension:
 
    def __init__(self, name, age, amount):
        self.name = name
        self.age = age
        self.amount = amount
 
 
def percentage():
    p = float(raw_input('How many percent is the growth? '))
    percentage = (p/100)+1
    return percentage
 
 
def read():
    f = open('file.txt','r')
    rad = f.readline()
    info = list()
    while rad != '':
        rad = rad.rstrip('\n')
        parts = rad.split('/')
        name = str(parts[0])
        age = int(parts[1])
        amount = float(parts[2])
        temp = Pension(name,age,amount)
        info.append(temp)
        rad = f.readline()
    f.close()
    return info
 
 
def printing(info):
    for i in range(len(info)):
        print info[i]
 
 
 
percentage()
info = read()
printing(info)
 
 

I would love it if anyone of you could help me out a bit :)
Thanks a lot in advance.

[dwblas]

This is the code I have so far and im kind of stuck now on how to get it working.

I would love it if anyone of you could help me out a bit

What does this mean? One obvious flaw is that "info" is a list of classes so you would print the fields of the class. An example follows. See "Defining Classes" here for basic class info. Note that you are doing the same thing as is done in "Using Classes" except you are doing this within a loop.

def printing(info):
    for class_instance in info:
        print class_instance.name, class_instance.age, \
              class_instance.amount
##
##   you could also add a print method to the class 
##
class Pension:
 
    def __init__(self, name, age, amount):
        self.name = name
        self.age = age
        self.amount = amount
 
    def print_data(self):
        print self.name, self.age, self.amount
 
def printing(info):
    for class_instance in info:
        class_instance.print_data() 

[Johan Ericsson]

That's great!
Thank you very very much. :D

Now the only thing I have left is adding the formula with the percentage and then print the finished list, which should include the name and how much they would have once they reach the age of 65.

[Johan Ericsson]

Is there a way to use the sum() function in order to calculate this?

Or is there an integral function already in python or possible in the math module?

SUM OF[ amount*math.pow(percentage, yearsLeft-1) + amount*math.pow(percentage, yearsLeft-2) + amount*math.pow(percentage, yearsLeft-3) + ... + amount*math.pow(percentage, yearsLeft-yearsLeft) ]

[Johan Ericsson]

what I meant was:
(amount*math.pow(percentage, yearsLeft-n)) where n goes from 0 to yearsLeft