while 1:
ready = raw_input("How about now? (Yes/No) ")
if ready == 'yes':
print "It's about time! I was getting bored."
break
I need guidance (not the answer) to a python question.**Ok, now I need an answer..**
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Ok, I'm trying to do something new to me, not sure if it's even possible going the route I'm going and I am having trouble finding any good search results for my attempt (so assuming I'm trying something wrong or taking it the wrong direction).
In my program I have a nested while statement that asks for users to answer a yes/no question. If they answer yes, the loop breaks and the program continues, however, if they answer 'no' then it currently re-asks the same question.
Here's the code:
What I'd like to do is if the user types 'no' that the program asks a question, but it takes the questions from a pre-made dictionary or list. Then, every time the user types 'no' the program will take the next response from the list and print it. So, if I have a dictionary or list of 5 responses, each time the user types 'no' it will respond with the next phrase in the list.
So far I've been trying to figure out how to do this using a dictionary to hold the phrases.
response = {1:'phrase 1',2:'phrase 2',3:'phrase 3'}
I am not sure if this is the right way to approach it, but I don't know how to handle getting each value (or returning the key as a value) one at a time and being able to print the result(well ok that's not true, I know how to get the value from a dictionary using the dictVar.get method). I don't want to have to write a new line for every response and make a ton of while loops. I figured there must be a way to have the code automatically pick the next phrase in some sort of loop using a dictionary or list.
So, I don't want or need the answer to the question all coded out for me, I just need a hint at what direction I should be going. I'd like to figure some of this out on my own if possible. Should I be using a dictionary? A List? Should I write my own function to handle some of this?
Thanks a bunch!
[Edited by - Landshark on August 19, 2009 12:21:54 AM]
You could use an array (or map, with integer keys) and store a variable that counts how many times 'no' is entered. Or you could use a list of phrases, and slice the head (or tail, depending on which you take) off the list everytime the head (or tail) is used...
If you go the list method, you could look into the 'pop' function for lists.
If you go the list method, you could look into the 'pop' function for lists.
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Thanks a million Choffstein, I figured it out using lists.
Now I have a totally new error happening, my program hangs (crashes) when I receive the IndexError (which I catch the exception for). I don't know what I'm missing, the except IndexError is suppose to be caught, but when it gets to that point the program freezes.
Here's the whole thing: **Note, running this program will cause the program to hang/possibly freeze your pc**
It took me about 30 minutes just to figure out I originally had my except in the wrong indent (IDLE was giving a syntax error), and I finally got in the right place (I think), and now my program freezes. :(
Now I have a totally new error happening, my program hangs (crashes) when I receive the IndexError (which I catch the exception for). I don't know what I'm missing, the except IndexError is suppose to be caught, but when it gets to that point the program freezes.
Here's the whole thing: **Note, running this program will cause the program to hang/possibly freeze your pc**
"""This is a guess a number game. It's created using while loop to only break when the user guesses the correct number"""#Need to first have the code find a random number and set it to a variableimport randomnumber = random.randint(1,10)ready = 'placeholder'quitnow = 'placeholder'phrases = ['How about now? [Yes/No] ', "You're not ready yet? [Yes/No] ", "Seriously, what are you doing that's taking so much time? Can we play now? [Yes/No] ", "I can't wait any longer! Last chance, are you ready? [Yes/No] "]#Here is the intro text to the gameprint ""while 1: print "Welcome to the Number Guessing Game!" print "" print "I will now think of a number between 1 and 10 and" print "you will try to guess it." #Ask the user if thye are ready to play while 1: if quitnow == 'quitnow': break if ready == 'yes': break ready = raw_input("Are you ready to play? (Yes/No) ") if ready == 'yes': print "Alright, let's begin!" break elif ready == 'no': while 1: try: ready = raw_input(phrases.pop(0)) if ready == 'yes': print "It's about time! I was getting bored." break except IndexError: quitnow = 'quitnow' #next, create the while loop that controls the guessing while 1: if quitnow == 'quitnow': print 'That\'s it, I\'m leaving!' break guess = int(raw_input("What number am I thinking of? ")) if guess == number: print "Congratulations, you have guessed the correct number!" break elif guess != number: print "Try again..." playagain = raw_input('Play again? [Yes/No] ') if playagain == 'no': breakIt took me about 30 minutes just to figure out I originally had my except in the wrong indent (IDLE was giving a syntax error), and I finally got in the right place (I think), and now my program freezes. :(
Hopefully I don't give away too much here:
Using the for loop in python you can iterate over every element in a list without slicing or any stupid tricks.
Nest a while loop and you're done.
If you need the responses simply declare a list somewhere outside your loops and append the user inputs to it.
E:
Judging by your post this doesn't actually do what you want. Something more similar to what you were trying to do is this:
Sorry, took me a couple of minutes to test that.
[Edited by - monkey_32606 on August 19, 2009 11:23:43 AM]
Using the for loop in python you can iterate over every element in a list without slicing or any stupid tricks.
Nest a while loop and you're done.
If you need the responses simply declare a list somewhere outside your loops and append the user inputs to it.
ques = ["Are you a plant?", "Are you a man?"]resp = []for q in ques: while 1: userinp = str(raw_input(q+" ")) resp.append(userinp) if userinp == "yes": break else: continue # don't actually need this, it restarts the inner whileE:
Judging by your post this doesn't actually do what you want. Something more similar to what you were trying to do is this:
# Added some commentsimport randomno = random.randint(1,10)ques = ["Want to play? [yes/no]", "Again, want to play? [yes/no]"]userinp = ""for q in ques: # for every element in ques assign it to q and do the following userinp = str(raw_input(q+" ")) # get our userinput if userinp == "yes": # they answered yes to one of our questions while 1: # prompt the user for a guess, forever guess = int(raw_input("Guess a number 1<n<10: ")) if guess == no: # they guessed right print "Got it!" break # break out of while loop else: # guess again print "Try again." break # leave for loop (quits) else: # they didn't answer yes continue # go on to the next questionSorry, took me a couple of minutes to test that.
[Edited by - monkey_32606 on August 19, 2009 11:23:43 AM]
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Monkey, thank you. I'm not reading your spoiler quite yet. :)
I was able to get the program to actually function. I figured out I was causing an infinite loop here:
Because it would just keep looping the 'try' and the list was already empty, so it would keep catchin the exception, over and over, infinite loop. :)
I fixed that by adding
if quitnow == 'quitnow':
break
under the while 1:
One problem fixed, another one emerges. So, I have a problem now where if I do get to the prompt "Play again? [Yes/No]" and choose 'yes' it will continue with this prompt:
I can't wait any longer! Last chance, are you ready? [Yes/No] no
That's it, I'm leaving!
Play again? [Yes/No] yes
Welcome to the Number Guessing Game!
I will now think of a number between 1 and 10 and
you will try to guess it.
That's it, I'm leaving!
Play again? [Yes/No] yes
Welcome to the Number Guessing Game!
I see that 'quitnow' is now equal to 'quitnow' which is then caught in the first while loop
if quitnow == 'quitnow':
break
So it skips all of the code and goes to the end of the first while loop.
Now I am trying to figure around using the quitnow/break scenario inside the first loop.
I know the code is a bit messy, but it's teaching me good things so far. :)
I was able to get the program to actually function. I figured out I was causing an infinite loop here:
while 1: try: ready = raw_input(phrases.pop(0)) if ready == 'yes': print "It's about time! I was getting bored." break except IndexError: quitnow = 'quitnow'Because it would just keep looping the 'try' and the list was already empty, so it would keep catchin the exception, over and over, infinite loop. :)
I fixed that by adding
if quitnow == 'quitnow':
break
under the while 1:
One problem fixed, another one emerges. So, I have a problem now where if I do get to the prompt "Play again? [Yes/No]" and choose 'yes' it will continue with this prompt:
I can't wait any longer! Last chance, are you ready? [Yes/No] no
That's it, I'm leaving!
Play again? [Yes/No] yes
Welcome to the Number Guessing Game!
I will now think of a number between 1 and 10 and
you will try to guess it.
That's it, I'm leaving!
Play again? [Yes/No] yes
Welcome to the Number Guessing Game!
I see that 'quitnow' is now equal to 'quitnow' which is then caught in the first while loop
if quitnow == 'quitnow':
break
So it skips all of the code and goes to the end of the first while loop.
Now I am trying to figure around using the quitnow/break scenario inside the first loop.
I know the code is a bit messy, but it's teaching me good things so far. :)
A suggestion:
I had another but I forgot it while I was typing this one up. :(
# use a bool instead of those quitnow = "quitnow"a = True # note capital T (lower case true is undefined)b = False # as aboveif a: print "You will see this."if b: print "You will NOT see this."I had another but I forgot it while I was typing this one up. :(
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Hey Monkey, thanks again. Using bools solved my last issue. My program now works completely as intended. Now it's just a matter of making the code cleaner (such as not catching an exception and using it as a function of the code).
Full source:
I've used the for loop in practice, but I'm not grasping your for loop code at a glance yet, so that's my next step.
Thanks again everyone, this is really fun and awesome. :)
Full source:
"""This is a guess a number game. It's created using while loop to only break when the user guesses the correct number"""#Need to first have the code find a random number and set it to a variableimport randomnumber = random.randint(1,10)ready = 'placeholder'phrases = ["How about now? [Yes/No] ", "You're not ready yet? [Yes/No] ", "Seriously, what are you doing that's taking so much time? Can we play now? [Yes/No] ", "I can't wait any longer! Last chance, are you ready? [Yes/No] "]#Here is the intro text to the gameprint ""while 1: quitnow = False print "Welcome to the Number Guessing Game!" print "" print "I will now think of a number between 1 and 10 and" print "you will try to guess it." #Ask the user if thye are ready to play while 1: if quitnow: break if ready == 'yes': break ready = raw_input("Are you ready to play? (Yes/No) ") if ready == 'yes': print "Alright, let's begin!" break elif ready == 'no': while 1: if quitnow: break try: ready = raw_input(phrases.pop(0)) if ready == 'yes': print "It's about time! I was getting bored." break except IndexError: quitnow = 'quitnow' #next, create the while loop that controls the guessing while 1: if quitnow: print 'That\'s it, I\'m leaving!' break guess = int(raw_input("What number am I thinking of? ")) if guess == number: print "Congratulations, you have guessed the correct number!" break elif guess != number: print "Try again..." playagain = raw_input('Play again? [Yes/No] ') if playagain == 'no': breakI've used the for loop in practice, but I'm not grasping your for loop code at a glance yet, so that's my next step.
Thanks again everyone, this is really fun and awesome. :)
You're having to catch an exception because you're popping elements off of your phrases list and when it reaches the end there is no phrase to remove from the empty list. You've got a couple of options on how to handle this. First option; keep track of the number of elements in the list and simply not pop the last one. Second option; iterate over every element in the list of phrases using a for loop. The second piece of code I posted uses this method.
While it's not really wrong, most people would recommend that you not deliberately trigger exceptions to break out of code either.
While it's not really wrong, most people would recommend that you not deliberately trigger exceptions to break out of code either.
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I'm rewriting my code for this small program, because I want to learn how to write it more efficiently.
Basically, here's what I've come up with so far (using many of the above suggestions and tailoring them to my program):
I'm calling this program "Guess a Number Game V2.0"
import randomquitnow = Falsetest = "test" #only used for testing purposesready = "placeholder"phrases = ["Are you ready to play? (Yes/No) ", "How about now? [Yes/No] ", "You're not ready yet? [Yes/No] ", "Seriously, what are you doing that's taking so much time? Can we play now? [Yes/No] ", "I can't wait any longer! Last chance, are you ready? [Yes/No] "]#Here is the intro text to the gameprint ""print ""while 1: if quitnow: break print "Welcome to the Number Guessing Game!" print "" print "I will now think of a number between 1 and 10 and" print "you will try to guess it." print "" #Ask the user if they are ready to play while 1: number = random.randint(1,10) if quitnow: break if ready == 'yes': break for que in phrases: ready = raw_input("%s" %que) if ready == 'yes': print "Alright, let's begin!" while 1: guess = int(raw_input("What number am I thinking of? ")) if guess == number: print "Congratulations, you have guessed the correct number!" break elif guess !=number: print "Try again..." print "" playagain = raw_input("Play again? [Yes/No] ") if playagain =='no': quitnow = True break break I'm trying to work through the issues on my own, but so far here's what up.
First, if the player completes the game (guesses the number) and chooses to play again, when the program restarts it grabs the 2nd string in the 'phrases' list rather than starting over with the first one. I tried to combat this by tossing in the very last break to hopefully get out of the 2nd while loop, but it doesn't seem to work.
Second, same issue, because I'm not able to get out of the 2nd while loop the random number is not random after the first play through, the code 'random = random.randint(1,10)' is only checked once, so it's keeping the same number value in the 'number' variable.
I think the major issue (unless I'm missing something else) is figuring out how to break out of the 2nd while loop.
Other than that, my code looks a lot cleaner than what I previously had.
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I could use a bit of help with this, my brain is not happy about it. (see previous post)
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