I'm going through a tutorial called "Learn Python the Hard Way" by Zed Shaw. At the end of his lessons he has "Extra Credit" sessions, and I'm stuck on one.
I'm on lesson 35, here is a link to it: http://blamcast.net/python/ex35.html The lesson involves creating a very simple text based game. One of the functions accepts user input: def gold_room(): print "This room is full of gold. How much do you take?" next = raw_input("> ") if "0" in next or "1" in next: how_much = int(next) else: dead("Man, learn to type a number.") if how_much < 50: print "Nice, you're not greedy, you win!" exit(0) else: dead("You greedy bastard!") The instruction from the Extra Credit section reads: The gold_room has a weird way of getting you to type a number. What are all the bugs in this way of doing it? Can you make it better than just checking if "1" or "0" are in the number? Look at how int() works for clues. I have read the documentation for int() and done some googling, but no lights have come on. :-) Here is what I have so far: def gold_room(): print "This room is full of gold. How much do you take?" next = raw_input("> ") if next <= "50": how_much = int(next) else: dead("You were too greedy.") if how_much < 50: print "Nice, you're not greedy, you win!" exit(0) else: dead("Man, learn to type a number!") This works fine as long as the user enters a number. However, if they enter anything else, they just get the first :else statement, "You were too greedy." My googling found solutions using an exception, but that hasn't been introduced yet in the tutorial. How would you solve this without using an exception? Thanks for any help, Don _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor