#Write a program that prompts the user for a list of strings and an
#integer, and then prints a list of all of the elements of the list
#whose length is greater than the integer.  First, complete the
#following function according to the docstring description.  Then,
#write a main program that calls your function.

def q1_correct(lst,x):
   '''Given a list of strings lst, return a new list that contains each
   element of lst whose length is greater than int x.  For example,
   longer(['abcd','abc','ab],2) returns ['abcd','abc']'''
   # We'll learn how to print interesting output soon!
   print "running q1_correct(%s,%d)" % (str(lst),x)
   new = []
   for s in lst:
      if len(s) > x:
         new.append(s)
   return new

def input_list():
   # x = raw_input("Enter a list of strings ")
   # try in the shell:  list(x).  Not what we want!

   il = []
   x = raw_input("enter a string to add to the list ")
   while  x:
      il.append(x)
      x = raw_input("enter a string to add to the list ")
   return il 
   
if __name__ == '__main__':

   x = q1_correct(['abcde','fff','f','qqq','1234567','jj','kkkk'],3)
   print x

   x = input_list()
   y = raw_input("Enter an integer ")
   print q1_correct(x,int(y))

   #here are some addition test cases of the function

   x = q1_correct(['abcde','fff','f','qqq','1234567','jj','kkkk'],2)
   print x,"sb",['abcde','fff','qqq','1234567','kkkk']

   lst = ['a','fffff','qqqaa','1111111111','33333']
   length = 2
   new_list = q1_correct(lst,int(length))
   print new_list, "sb", ['fffff','qqqaa','1111111111','33333']