How to call something inputted by user in the code? aws api - amazon-web-services

Question

data = cd.get_cost_and_usage(TimePeriod={'Start':input("Enter Start Date in format yyyy-mm-dd:\n"),'End': input("Enter End Date in format yyyy-mm-dd:\n")}, Granularity='MONTHLY',
Metrics=[input('Choose any of the following metrics: AMORTIZED_COST, UNBLENDED_COST, BLENDED_COST, USAGE_QUANTITY, NET_AMORTIZED_COST\n')],
GroupBy=[{'Type': 'DIMENSION', 'Key': 'LINKED_ACCOUNT'}, {'Type': 'DIMENSION', 'Key':input("Enter any of the following Dimensions - SERVICE, INSTANCE_TYPE, USAGE_TYPE, RECORD_TYPE:\n")}], **kwargs)
for info in data['ResultsByTime']:
for group in info['Groups']:
data=(group['Keys'][0], info['TimePeriod']['Start'], group['Metrics'][]
['Amount'], group['Keys'][1])
print(*data, sep=", ", file=f, flush=True)
in the below part of the script, the [] needs to have the same input as Metrics, how do I make it so the User doesn't have to input the same thing twice? whatever they put as Metrics comes up in this as well?
data=(group['Keys'][0], info['TimePeriod']['Start'], group['Metrics'][]
['Amount'], group['Keys'][1])

Answer 1

I think the most logical way would be to extract the metric input along with the other inputs, and then re-use it.
For example:
metric_chosen = input('Choose any of the following metrics: AMORTIZED_COST, UNBLENDED_COST, BLENDED_COST, USAGE_QUANTITY, NET_AMORTIZED_COST\n')
date_start = input("Enter Start Date in format yyyy-mm-dd:\n")
date_end = input("Enter End Date in format yyyy-mm-dd:\n")
dimension_chosen = input("Enter any of the following Dimensions - SERVICE, INSTANCE_TYPE, USAGE_TYPE, RECORD_TYPE:\n")
data = cd.get_cost_and_usage(
TimePeriod={
'Start': date_start,
'End': date_end
},
Granularity='MONTHLY',
Metrics=[metric_chosen],
GroupBy=[
{'Type': 'DIMENSION',
'Key': 'LINKED_ACCOUNT'
},
{'Type': 'DIMENSION',
'Key': dimension_chosen
}], **kwargs)
for info in data['ResultsByTime']:
for group in info['Groups']:
data=(group['Keys'][0],
info['TimePeriod']['Start'],
group['Metrics'][metric_chosen]['Amount'],
group['Keys'][1])
print(*data, sep=", ", file=f, flush=True)