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.
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.
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