> Dawson) Game Over 2.0 program in chapter two on page 17. The object of > this program is to do ASCII-style art to generate a large rendition of > "Game Over" using the following characters: "_" , "\" , "|" , and "/" > . When my son tried to do his version, the "Over" portion did not > print correctly.
Hi boB, Ah ha. Escape characters. I see what you mean. :P Just to add: there is a "raw" string literal syntax that will turn off escape sequence handling. Using a raw string literal may make it easier to type the value in question. We can use raw literal strings by prepending a 'r' in the front of the string literal. e.g.: ########################################## >>> x = r''' ... this\ ... is\ ... a/ ... test\ ... ''' >>> x '\nthis\\\nis\\\na/\ntest\\\n' >>> print x this\ is\ a/ test\ ########################################## It might be that the question is trying to motivate the use of raw string literals, or teaching about escape sequences. I don't have the book, so I can't say for sure. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
