Re: [Tutor] please return flys in ointment
On 07/07/2013 02:47 AM, Jim Mooney wrote: On 6 July 2013 22:52, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote: The other author does not use hyphens or commas in the words. He ends each string with a blank. And he neglected to handle zero. He also is buggy beyond a nonillion-1. I found yet another implementation that does work up to at least a decillion, and it agrees with yours throughout (actually, the testing was done with the same million random probes as what I posted earlier.) However, he also omits the commas and the hyphens. An interesting site is: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Names_to_numbers which has a bunch of different languages (and programmers) implementing the same concept. Note that the spec didn't say how the words should be laid out, and there are many variations in result between the various implementations. These include not only the hyphens, commas, but also the use of the word 'and' between some parts of the numbers. -- DaveA ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] please return flys in ointment
On 07/07/13 08:44, Jim Mooney wrote: thought about it, but it seemed to me that when most people are verbalizing big numbers, they tend not to use 'and.' True in the USA but not the UK (and derivatives?). Here most folks seem to put the 'and' in. eg: three thousand, four hundred and fifty six... Incidentally, if you get any Indian users they'll be looking for support for 'laks' - 100,000's :-) HTH -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Combat Error
When the player of my game fire his/her cannon, it is supposed to get rid of some of the enemy's health. It does not. I have no clue what the error is, so I need help. Here is the Python Shell output: fire cannon 1 Fired! Enemy health= 75 They fired at you! Your health is now 55 fire cannon 2 Fired! Enemy health= 75 They fired at you! Your health is now 55 fire cannon 1 Fired! Enemy health= 75 They fired at you! Your health is now 55 Here is the code: def lvl4combat(): print The barracks are constructed of wood and cobblestone. print A large, single cannon sits on the top, searching the sky for enemy airships. print The cannon is manned by a single team of three men. print The cannon is large and industrial. print Remember your training. cannonhealth=75 cannondamage=random.choice([10,17,13]) currhealth=health while cannonhealth 0: print They fired at you! currhealth-cannonhealth print Your health is now,currhealth combat=raw_input() if combat.lower()==fire cannon 1: print Fired! cannonhealth-attack print Enemy health=,cannonhealth elif combat.lower()==fire cannon 2: print Fired! cannonhealth-attack print Enemy health=,cannonhealth if currhealth = 0: break defeat1() if cannonhealth = 0: break victory1() if kboost==True: karma+25*.25 elif kboost==False: karma+25___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Combat Error
On 07/07/2013 06:40 PM, Jack Little wrote: When the player of my game fire his/her cannon, it is supposed to get rid of some of the enemy's health. It does not. I have no clue what the error is, so I need help. Here is the Python Shell output: fire cannon 1 Fired! Enemy health= 75 They fired at you! Your health is now 55 fire cannon 2 Fired! Enemy health= 75 They fired at you! Your health is now 55 fire cannon 1 Fired! Enemy health= 75 They fired at you! Your health is now 55 Here is the code: def lvl4combat(): print The barracks are constructed of wood and cobblestone. print A large, single cannon sits on the top, searching the sky for enemy airships. print The cannon is manned by a single team of three men. print The cannon is large and industrial. print Remember your training. cannonhealth=75 cannondamage=random.choice([10,17,13]) currhealth=health while cannonhealth 0: print They fired at you! currhealth-cannonhealth print Your health is now,currhealth combat=raw_input() if combat.lower()==fire cannon 1: print Fired! cannonhealth-attack This expression has no useful effect. You probably wanted cannonhealth -= attack print Enemy health=,cannonhealth elif combat.lower()==fire cannon 2: print Fired! cannonhealth-attack ditto print Enemy health=,cannonhealth if currhealth = 0: break defeat1() if cannonhealth = 0: break victory1() if kboost==True: karma+25*.25 ditto elif kboost==False: karma+25 ditto You also have code following break statements that will never execute. In particular, you'll never call defeat1() or victory1() -- DaveA ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Combat Error
On 08/07/13 08:40, Jack Little wrote: def lvl4combat(): print The barracks are constructed of wood and cobblestone. print A large, single cannon sits on the top, searching the sky for enemy airships. print The cannon is manned by a single team of three men. print The cannon is large and industrial. print Remember your training. cannonhealth=75 Here you start with cannonhealth set to 75. But you never lower the score, so it never changes and the loop doesn't end. cannondamage=random.choice([10,17,13]) currhealth=health while cannonhealth 0: print They fired at you! currhealth-cannonhealth Here you calculate the number (currhealth - cannonhealth), which is the difference between your health and the cannon's health, but do nothing with the result. Which is probably a good thing, since the calculation doesn't mean anything. Perhaps you meant this? currhealth = currenthealth - cannondamage or even this, which is another way of doing the same calculation: currhealth -= cannondamage print Your health is now,currhealth combat=raw_input() if combat.lower()==fire cannon 1: print Fired! cannonhealth-attack Here you calculate the number (cannonhealth - attack), which is the difference between the cannon's health and the damage done, but do nothing with the result. As I suggested the last time you made this same error, you might find it easier to see the problem if you put spaces around operators, so that they are a little easier to notice and read: cannonhealth - attack cannonhealth-attack Like the above, you probably want: cannonhealth = cannonhealth - attack And you make a similar mistake in at least three other places. I will leave you to find them. -- Steven ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Combat Error
On 07/07/13 23:40, Jack Little wrote: When the player of my game fire his/her cannon, it is supposed to get rid of some of the enemy's health. It does not. I have no clue what the error is, Its not entirely clear to me who is 'you' and who is 'the enemy' Why does the enemy firing a cannon at me affect the enemy's health? I see how it might affect my health but not the enemies (it might affect their ammunition supplies but that's another story!) while cannonhealth 0: snip... if combat.lower()==fire cannon 1: print Fired! cannonhealth-attack I assume these lines are supposed to modify cannonhealth? In fact they do nothing since you don't assign the result. You probably want cannonhealth -= attack print Enemy health=,cannonhealth elif combat.lower()==fire cannon 2: print Fired! cannonhealth-attack print Enemy health=,cannonhealth if currhealth = 0: break defeat1() You do realize that code after a break will never be executed? The break immediately leaves the loop, it does not execute any further statements. if cannonhealth = 0: break same here. All following code is ignored. victory1() if kboost==True: karma+25*.25 I doubt this does what you think it does. You should really get used to using the prompt to try out things... 10+25*.25 16.25 (10+25)*.25 8.75 10+(25*.25) 16.25 But since you don't assign the result to anything it's pretty harmless in that it has no impact on the code whatsoever except to waste some time. elif kboost==False: karma+25 Same here. No assignment means no change. To be honest, it kind of feels like you don't have any design for this thing. You are just making it up as you go along. While evolution is an amazing mechanism for random change it has the downside of taking a very long time to produce useful results. If you plan to progress quickly, design wins every time! Paper and pencils are still effective tools. HTH -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
