Is there a way to repeat a single function in a while loop one in every 5 times the loop runs? I am trying to create a bot to help me with my Latin revision but I don't want the option to close the program to crop up every time I answer a question, it would be better if it only happened 1 out of 10 times.
import random
exit = "no"
print "welcome to latin learner v1"
wordtype = raw_input("what would you like to learn (nouns verbs everything)")
if wordtype == "nouns":
declension = raw_input("declension 1-5")
if declension == "1":
while "no" in exit:
wordno = random.randint(1,30)
noun1L = ["ancilla","aqua","cena","copiae","cura","dea","domina","epistula","femina","filia","hora","ianua","insula","ira","nauta","patria","pecunia","poena","porta","puella","regina","Roma","silva","taberna","terra","turba","via","victoria","villa","vita"]
answer = raw_input(noun1L[wordno])
noun1E = ["slave-girl" or"slave-woman","water","dinner" or "meal","forces" or "troops","care" or "worry","goddess","mistress","letter","woman","daughter","hour","door","island" or "block of flats","anger","sailor","country" or "homeland","money","punishment","gate","girl","queen","Rome","wood","shop" or "inn","ground" or "land" or "country","crowd","street" or "road" or "way","victory","house" or "country villa","life"]
if noun1E[wordno] == answer:
print "correct"
else:
print "incorrect"
print noun1E[wordno]
for i in range[1,5]:
exit = raw_input("would you like to quit (yes/no)")
To solve your issue, we can add a question counter and use the modulus operator (%) to trigger the exit option on every fifth question.
However, there are some other problems to address. For example, this:
,"dinner" or "meal",
is just wishful thinking -- it doesn't work that way. We can turn this into a list of possible answers. Next, whenever we have parallel arrays like noun1L and noun1E, it usually means we're missing a data structure. Finally, don't store the data in the code, separate them.
Here's my rework of your code addressing the above issues:
import random
noun1 = {
"ancilla": ["slave-girl", "slave-woman"],
"aqua": ["water"],
"cena": ["dinner", "meal"],
"copiae": ["forces", "troops"],
"cura": ["care", "worry"],
"dea": ["goddess"],
"domina": ["mistress"],
"epistula": ["letter"],
"femina": ["woman"],
"filia": ["daughter"],
"hora": ["hour"],
"ianua": ["door"],
"insula": ["island", "block of flats"],
"ira": ["anger"],
"nauta": ["sailor"],
"patria": ["country", "homeland"],
"pecunia": ["money"],
"poena": ["punishment"],
"porta": ["gate"],
"puella": ["girl"],
"regina": ["queen"],
"Roma": ["Rome"],
"silva": ["wood"],
"taberna": ["shop", "inn"],
"terra": ["ground", "land", "country"],
"turba": ["crowd"],
"via": ["street", "road", "way"],
"victoria": ["victory"],
"villa": ["house", "country villa"],
"vita": ["life"],
}
print("Welcome to Latin Learner v1")
wordtype = raw_input("What would you like to learn (nouns verbs everything): ")
if wordtype == "nouns" or wordtype == "everything":
declension = raw_input("Declension 1-5: ")
if declension == "1":
count = 1
while True:
word = random.choice(list(noun1))
answer = raw_input(word +": ")
if answer.lower() in noun1[word]:
print("Correct.")
else:
print("Incorrect: " + ", ".join(noun1[word]))
if count % 5 == 0:
answer = raw_input("would you like to quit (yes/no): ")
if "y" in answer.lower():
break
count += 1
I am trying to create a simple "guess the word" game in Python. My output is something like:
String: _____ _____
Guess a word: 'e'
String:_e__o __e_e
Guess a word: 'h'
(and so on)
String: hello there
I have a function to do this, and within this function I have this code:
def guessing(word):
count = 0
blanks = "_" * len(word)
letters_used = "" #empty string
while count<len(word):
guess = raw_input("Guess a letter:")
blanks = list(blanks)
#Checks if guesses are valid
if len(guess) != 1:
print "Please guess only one letter at a time."
elif guess not in ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz "):
print "Please only guess letters!"
#Checks if guess is found in word
if guess in word and guess not in letters_used:
x = word.index(guess)
for x in blanks:
blanks[x] = guess
letters_used += guess
print ("".join(blanks))
print "Number of misses remaining:", len(word)-counter
print "There are", str(word.count(guess)) + str(guess)
guess is the raw input I get from the user for a guess, and letters_used is just a collection of guesses that the user has already input. What I'm trying to do is loop through blanks based on the word.index(guess). Unfortunately, this returns:
Guess a letter: e
e___
Yes, there are 1e
Help would be much appreciated!
Your code was almost correct. There were few mistakes which I have corrected:
def find_all(needle, haystack):
"""
Finds all occurances of the string `needle` in the string `haystack`
To be invoked like this - `list(find_all('l', 'hello'))` => #[2, 3]
"""
start = 0
while True:
start = haystack.find(needle, start)
if start == -1: return
yield start
start += 1
def guessing(word):
letters_uncovered_count = 0
blanks = "_" * len(word)
blanks = list(blanks)
letters_used = ""
while letters_uncovered_count < len(word):
guess = raw_input("Guess a letter:")
#Checks if guesses are valid
if len(guess) != 1:
print "Please guess only one letter at a time."
elif guess not in ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"):
print "Please only guess letters!"
if guess in letters_used:
print("This character has already been guessed correctly before!")
continue
#Checks if guess is found in word
if guess in word:
guess_positions = list(find_all(guess, word))
for guess_position in guess_positions:
blanks[x] = guess
letters_uncovered_count += 1
letters_used += guess
print ("".join(blanks))
print "Number of misses remaining:", len(word)-letters_uncovered_count
print "There are", str(word.count(guess)) + str(guess)
else:
print("Wrong guess! Try again!")
I'm making a hang man game. When I made the code with out a conditional and classes, it worked fine. Basically my issues with the code below are:
Only the letter "t" will match. I can't get any other letter to match.
If I enter "t" on the first try, then purposely get the next 4 letters wrong, it won't end until after 7 turns. Yet if I enter any other letter first, it will end after 4 wrong turns, like it should.
My questions....
How can I get it to match with the other letters that are in the self.word index?
Why is it not obeying the condition I set with the while loop in the main method if I enter "t" on my first try and get every other letter wrong thereafter?
class Hang():
def __init__(self):
self.turns = 0
self.word = ['t', 'h', 'i', 's']
self.empty = ["__", "__", "__", "__"]
self.wrong = []
def main(self):
while self.turns < 4:
for i in self.word:
choice = raw_input("Enter a letter a-z: ")
if choice == i:
index = self.word.index(i)
self.empty.pop(index)
self.empty.insert(index, i)
print self.empty
else:
print "Wrong"
self.wrong.append(choice)
print self.wrong
print self.empty
self.turns += 1
char1 = Hang()
char1.main()
In the game of hangman you can guess any character in the phrase in any order. But you're using a for loop to go through each character in order and it is only correct if the player correctly guesses the characters in order
Try this instead
while self.turns < 4:
choice = raw_input("Enter a letter a-z: ")
# optional, if user enters more than a single letter
if len(choice) > 1:
print "invalid choice"
continue # loop again from start
index = self.word.index(choice)
if index != -1:
# -1 indicates character in not int the string
# so this block is only executed if character is
# in the string
self.empty[index] = choice # no need to pop, you can simply change the value of the list at a given index
else:
print "wrong"
self.turns += 1
print self.empty
I've been teaching my self to program in python lately and decided to make this game. I have been successful for the majority of it except for a few things
When an incorrect letter is inputted, the letter is appended to the wrong letter array for as many spots in the gamespace array that the userletter does equal.Example: if I type in "the" for the wordtarget, I get t, h and e printed 2 times into wrong letter array. No matter what the letter gets out into wrong letter array
Code:
wordTarget = raw_input("enter word here: ").lower ()
gameSpace = ["_"] * Len(wordTarget)
wrongLetter = []
def main():
for x in range(0, len(wordTarget)):
while (gameSpace[x] != wordTarget[x]):
getLetter()
for i in range(0,len(wordTarget)):
if (wordTarget[i] == userLetter):
gameSpace[i] = userLetter
elif (wordTarget[i] != userLetter):
print "letter is incorrect, try again"
wrongLetter.append(userLetter)
print ("Incorrect Letters: %s" % wrongLetter)
print ("Correct Letters: %s" % gameSpace)
if (gameSpace == wordTarget):
print "Congratulations! You won"
main()
I'm guessing the problem lies with the for loops I'm running and the way I'm checking for right answer but can't figure it out.
The loop checking the letter seems to be your issue. Try replacing it with:
position = 0
ptr = wordTarget.find(userLetter, position)
while ptr != -1:
gameSpace[ptr] = userLetter
position = ptr + 1
ptr = wordTarget.find(userLetter, position)
if position == 0: # no match ever found
print "letter is incorrect, try again"
wrongLetter.append(userLetter)
Also replace the original for loop with while ("".join(gameSpace) != wordTarget):, and you should be good to go.
I'm working on a number guessing game and can't seem to get my loop to work while utilizing a function. I was manually typing out conversion under each if/elif in the block, but that was tedious and only checking for integers - string inputs couldn't read and broke the system.
I tried creating a conversion function to check the values and determine if it was an integer or string and change the variable type accordingly. However this results in an infinite loop fo line 18.
Can someone point out what I'm doing wrong here?
Heads up, I do have the random.py script from Python.org and am importing it so the game plays differently each time.
from random import randint
print 'Hello, my name is Skynet. What\'s yours?'
myName = raw_input()
print 'Good to meet you, ' + myName + '! Let\'s play a game.'
print 'I\'m thinking of a number between between 1 and 20, can you guess it?'
pcNum = randint(1,20)
myNum = raw_input()
def checkNum(myNum):
try:
int(myNum)
except ValueError:
returnVAL = 'That\'s not a number I know, try again.'
else:
returnVAL = int(myNum)
return returnVAL
while myNum != pcNum:
if myNum > pcNum:
print 'That\'s too high! Try again.'
myNum = raw_input()
checkNum(myNum)
else:
print 'That\'s too low! Try again.'
myNum = raw_input()
checkNum(myNum)
if myNum == pcNum:
print 'Good job, my number was ' + str(pcNum) + ' too! Good job, ' + myName
Any input is appreciated. I did some browsing here and got some a better idea of how to pull this off, or so I thought, and now here I am asking. First post!
print "I'm thinking of a number between between 1 and 20, can you guess it?"
while True:
guess = raw_input("What's your guess? ")
try:
guess = int(guess, 10)
except ValueError:
print "That's not a number I know, try again."
continue
if guess == pcNum:
...
break
elif guess > pcNum:
...
else:
...
Don't mix responsibilities. It is wrong to have myNum be both a number and an error message.
Also, think what you want to do when a user enters a non-number. In your case, the user's guess is "That's not a number I know, try again.", and it's being compared to pcNum; this makes no sense. If it was me, I would want the user to enter the number again. So rather than checkNum, I want input_valid_integer:
def input_valid_integer():
result = None
while result is None:
text = raw_input()
try:
result = int(text)
except ValueError:
print 'That\'s not a number I know, try again.'
return result