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I'm writing a simple text-based game and I've run into an error here.
def lamp():
print "You pick up the lamp and examine it."
print "It looks like an ordinary gas lamp."
print "What do you do?"
lamp_action = raw_input("> ")
if "rub" in lamp_action:
rub()
elif "break" or "smash" in lamp_action:
print "The lamp shatters into pieces."
dead("The room disappears and you are lost in the void.")
else:
lamp()
If I comment out the elif part, Python gives an invalid syntax error on else. If I leave the elif part in, the program will run without an error, but even typing something random like "aaaaaa" will follow the elif action.
I also doesn't work if I replace the else section with something like this:
else:
print "That's not a good idea."
lamp()
or like this:
else:
dead("That's not a good idea.")
Where dead is:
def dead(why):
print "%s Game over." % why
exit(0)
What did I miss?
"break" or "smash" in lamp_action is interpreted by Python as testing "break", then testing "smash" in lamp_action. Since "break" is a nonempty string, it is always interpreted as "true", so the elif is always taken.
The correct form is
elif lamp_action in ('break', 'smash'):
i.e. testing if the action is in a list of possibilities.
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I have tried everything I could before asking this question... I am making a little text adventure game, really simple and the only code in it is basically just input(). But when they do something wrong, I want to add an else: and print("Thats not valid!") and go back to example = input(), but my else statement is printing and re-doing input with a correct statement, so its still executing else without any error, can anyone help? I don't know why its doing this and all the examples I have seen this is valid code, and my else statement just executes without checking if it was wrong...
```python
if prompt1 == "y":
print("Lets start")
else:
prompt1 = input()
It then executes input again...
If that's the exact code the indention is wrong.
The if and else of same condition should have same indention:
if condition:
do this
else:
do this
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When I run this easy program and want to exit it, I need to type exit 2 times (at line 7).
def registration():
def username_registration():
entering_username = True
while entering_username:
print("Type exit to leave the registration.")
usernam_from_registration = input("Enter username: ")
if usernam_from_registration == "exit":
break
lenght_usernam_from_registration = len(usernam_from_registration)
if lenght_usernam_from_registration > 15:
print("too long")
else:
return usernam_from_registration
username_registration()
print(username_registration())
registration()
Why is this and how can I make it so I only need to write it one time?
This is because you are calling the username_registration() function twice.
username_registration()
print(username_registration())
The first time you call it, nothing happens because you are not doing anything with the result.
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I am a beginner learning Python and wrote the following codes. To control the loop flow I tried using a variable "test", but the loop never stopped. Appreciate if any thoughts.
test=False
while test==False:
a=input("Please enter an even number to make test True: ")
if int(a)%2==0:
test==True
print("test is now True")
else:
print("Please try again!")
test=False
while test is False:
a=input("Please enter an even number to make test True: ")
if int(a) %2 == 0:
test = True
print("test is now True")
else:
print("Please try again!")
Fixed the test == true, should've been test = true :) have fun learning
heres the right code:
test=False
while test==False:
a=input("Please enter an even number to make test True: ")
if int(a)%2==0:
test=True
print("test is now True")
else:
print("Please try again!")
here's what you did wrong:
in the 5th line test==True the == checks if that's what the variable true stores, it doesn't set it; so this can be simply fixed by test=True
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I'm completely new to programming and am trying to write a function that takes a yes or no question. However, when I run the below it always seems to complete with my variable as False. There has to be something simple here that I'm missing. I'd love to hear any thoughts / feedback / improvements to it. Thank you!
def yes_or_no(question):
answer = input(question).lower().strip()
print("")
while not(answer == "y" or answer == "yes" or \
answer == "n" or answer == "no"):
print("\nSorry, only Y or N please.")
answer = input(question).lower().strip()
print("")
print(answer)
if answer == 'y' or answer == 'yes':
answer = True
else:
answer = False
You forgot to return the answer, so that function returns None by default. Add return answer at the end of the function.
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Python Question: i need to run a program that asks for a password but if the wrong answer is input three times the user is thrown out of the program i can run it in a while loop but cant get it to quit if the wrong password is entered.
Thanks for your help
Adding an approximation of how I'd do it, in the absence of an example containing the problem. else on a for loop will only execute if you did not break out of the loop. Since you know the max number of times to run the loop is 3 you can just use a for loop instead of a while loop. break will still break you out early.
for _ in range(3):
if raw_input("Password:") == valid_passwd: # really should compare hashed values (as I shouldnt have passwords stored in the clear
print "you guessed correctly"
break
print "you guessed poorly"
else:
print "you have failed too many times, goodbye"
sys.exit(1)
# continue on your merry (they got the right password)
How about sys.exit()
>>> import sys
>>> guess = False
>>> if guess:
... pass
... else:
... sys.exit()
http://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html