people = { 'Alice':{ 'phone':'2341', 'addr':'Foo drive 23' }, 'Beth':{ 'phone':'9102', 'addr':'Bar street 42' }, 'Cecil':{ 'phone':'3158', 'addr':'Baz avenue 90' } } labels = { 'phone':'phone number', 'addr': 'address' } name = input('Name: ') request = input("Phone number (p) or address (a) ?") if request == 'p': key = 'phone' if request == 'a': key = 'addr' if name in people: print (("%s's %s is %s .") % (name, labels[key], people[name][key]))