Beginner with parallel arrays in python -

i've been stuck program week. i'm trying create program inputs names of salespersons , total sales month in 2 parallel arrays (names , sales) , determine salesperson has greatest sales(max)

names = [" "]*3 sales = [0]*3 index = 0 max = 0  k = 0  names[k] = input("enter salesperson's name , monthly sales: (to exit enter   * or 0)") sales[k] = int(input("enter monthly sales:"))  while (names[k] !="*"):     if sales[k] > max :        index = k        max = sales[index]         k = k + 1   print("max sales month: ",max) print("salesperson: ",(names[index])) 

it doesn't prompt user 3 times name , salary instead asks once , error:

enter salesperson's name , monthly sales: (to exit enter * or 0)jon enter monthly sales:3  traceback (most recent call last):  file "c:\users\user\downloads\sales.py", line 18, in <module> while (names[k] !="*"):  indexerror: list index out of range 

i suggest instead of having 'parallel arrays' put names , sales figures dictionary. here looks need:

totals = {} name = input("enter name: ") while name:     sales = int(input("enter sales: "))     totals[name] = sales     name = input("enter name: ") 

this code continue accepting new names until enter blank name.

from here should use pythons counter class this:

# move import top of file collections import counter  c = counter(totals) max_seller = max(c) print("max sales month", totals[max_seller]) print("salesperson:", max_seller)