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Inventory Menu System

The Brief

Build a small inventory management CLI for a warehouse. The user can add a product, remove a product, list all products with their stock levels, or quit. Inventory is stored as a dictionary mapping product name to quantity. Show validated input, friendly messages, and a clean menu loop.

Acceptance Criteria

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1 Use a dictionary to store product names and stock quantities

4 Remove option prompts for a product name and removes it if it exists, with a friendly message if it does not

5 List option prints every product and quantity in a formatted table or aligned columns

6 Quit option breaks the loop

8 Invalid quantity input (non-integer or negative) prints an error and does NOT add the product

2 Build a while True menu loop with options Add, Remove, List, Quit

7 Invalid menu choice prints an error and continues

3 Add option prompts for product name and quantity, validates quantity is a positive integer, then updates the dictionary

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solution.py

Python 3

# Inventory Manager

inventory = {}

# Build your menu loop here
# Use input() for the user prompts
# Validate quantity is a positive integer before adding

Console