On 12/17/2025 10:43 PM, Gregg Drennan via Python-list wrote:
The other recommendation i would make is to shorten the response the player needs to give when choosing their option. "R", "P", "S" is sufficient to determine the player's choice. Making the player enter the whole word introduces opportunity for misspellings. I would also allow the player to enter "Q" in case they decide to stop playing. And always check to make sure the player entered something and didn't just hit enter. Also don't use .lower() until you check to make sure you have a valid entry, the player might enter a character that can't be converted to lower case, like a number or punctuation.
See, here's the problem with relying on a chatbot. Calling lower() works fine for a character that doesn't have a lowerclass version. It just returns the original.
while True: player_choice = input("Please enter your choice (Rock, Paper, Scissors, or Quit): " If not player_choice or player_choice[0] not in "RPSQrpsq": # check if None or invalid choice print("Invalid choice...") else: If player_choice[0].lower() == "q": print("Thanks for playing. Good-bye.") break # code to score the choices, blah, blah, blah Good luck with your new version! On Mon, Dec 8, 2025, 5:37 PM John Smith via Python-list < [email protected]> wrote:Thanks for the recommendations. I'm building a whole new version based on the old one, with simpler code and functions to find win stats. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
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