G'day,
Thanks for the input on my lotto number selector program, very much
appreciated and I learnt a lot. I've (hopefully) cleaned it up a little, and
expanded it to write the numbers to a text file. I'm sure there must be a
better way of doing it then the way I have.
I understand that the "else" is not neccessary for the program to work but
should I include it to show the end of the loop? I guess it's not important
in a program like this that has only 1 loop but maybe it makes reading more
complcated programs easier or is the indentation sufficient?
import random
# create or replace lotto.txt in my home directory
file('/home/mutt/lotto.txt','w').write('Here are your numbers:\n\n')
# user input for number of games to choose
how_many_games = int(raw_input('Enter how many games you would like
generated : '))
print '\n\nHere are your numbers : \n'
# loop for the number of games selected by user
for game in range(1, how_many_games + 1):
# generate 6 random numbers between 1 and 45 inclusive
lotto_numbers = random.sample(xrange(1,46), 6)
# Right justified in 3 character width then a tab (\t) then a blank line
(\n)
print '%3s\t%s\n' % (game, lotto_numbers)
# append the numbers to lotto.txt
file('/home/mutt/lotto.txt','a').write('Game: ')
file('/home/mutt/lotto.txt','a').write(str(game))
file('/home/mutt/lotto.txt','a').write(' ')
file('/home/mutt/lotto.txt','a').write(str(lotto_numbers))
file('/home/mutt/lotto.txt','a').write('\n')
print '\nHope you win!'
file('/home/mutt/lotto.txt','a').write('\n\nHope you win!')
John
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