On 03/11/2014 05:07 AM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
On Mar 8, 2014, at 3:57 AM, spir <denis.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
Well done.
And now that you have the right set of tests you can
half the number of lines by combining your if
conditions again, like you had in the original
post. ie. Bring your hot/cold/warm tests together.
So below is what I finally came up with that works. I’m trying to condense it
to half the number of lines like Denis suggested. I was hoping to clarify a
couple things if you guys don’t mind….
I wanna make sure I understand how this code is working. So, from what I
gather it first checks to see if the ‘guess’ is out of range and if that is
false it continues to the next ‘if’ statement checking wether it’s too low.
Now this is where I’m not 100% sure if the too low ‘if’ statement is false does
it skip everything that is nested below it (you are cold, warm, on fire) and go
to the ‘if statement checking if it’s too high? And now say the too low ‘if’
statement is true, because it’s an ‘if’ the code does not stop it continues but
when it gets to the elif the code stops?
def print_hints(secret, guess):
if guess < 1 or guess > 100:
print
print "Out of range!"
print
I think here if the condition is true, you could just quit the function
(return), no? The rest does not make much sense, I guess...
if guess < secret:
print
print "Too low!"
if guess < secret - 10:
print "You are cold!"
print
print "Sorry please try again."
print
print
elif guess < secret - 5:
print "You are warmer!"
print
print "Sorry please try again."
print
print
else:
print "You're on fire!!"
print
print "Sorry please try again."
print
print
if guess > secret:
print
print "Too high!"
if guess > secret + 10:
print "You are cold!"
print
print "Sorry please try again."
print
print
elif guess > secret + 5:
print "You are warmer!"
print
print "Sorry please try again."
print
print
else:
print "You're on fire!!"
print
print "Sorry please try again."
print
print
This is what I have right now, obviously it’s not working. I’ve been playing
around with it but I’m just not seeing where I’m going wrong. Any suggestions
are greatly appreciated!
def print_hints(secret, guess):
if guess < 1 or guess > 100:
print
print "Out of range!"
print
if guess < secret:
print
print "Too low!"
if guess > secret:
print
print "Too high!"
if guess < secret - 10 or guess > secret - 10:
print "You are cold!"
print
print "Sorry please try again."
print
print
elif guess < secret - 5 or guess > secret - 5:
print "You are warmer!"
print
print "Sorry please try again."
print
print
else:
print "You're on fire!!"
print
print "Sorry please try again."
print
print
Below, the "temperature" hint and low/high hint are logically independant. The
first one depends on the distance between secret and guess numbers, the second
one depends on their relative values (greater/smaller). And the second hint
(low/high) only makes sense iff the player did not win, meaning iff not "on fire!".
However, both are related to the difference. Conceptually, after having passed
the test out-of-range, I would start with something like:
diff = guess - secret
# (we know guess is in range)
# temperature hint
dist = abs(diff)
if dist == 0:
... on fire!
return
elif dist < 5:
...
# (we know secret was not found)
# high/low hint
neg = diff < 0
...
As an exercise, you could write each kind of hint in a separate tool func, and
call each one only when relevant.
Denis
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