Re: [Tutor] role playing game - help needed

2010-12-06 Thread Al Stern
Thanks for the advice. I think I have the dictionary function set up right now although I'm still not clear why it is better than the list. attributes = {"strength": 0, "health": 0, "wisdom": 0, "dexterity": 0} I think my next task is to set up a while function based on when available_points dro

Re: [Tutor] role playing game - help needed

2010-12-06 Thread Al Stern
work on the surface. On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "Al Stern" wrote > > > Thanks for the advice. I think I have the dictionary function set up right >> now although I'm still not clear why it is better than the list. >> >> at

Re: [Tutor] role playing game - help needed

2010-12-07 Thread Al Stern
"C:\Users\Public\Documents\My Python programs\role_playing_game1.py", line 8, in keys = attributes.viewkeys() AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'viewkeys' On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "Al Stern" wrote > > at

Re: [Tutor] role playing game - help needed

2010-12-07 Thread Al Stern
call last): File "C:\Users\Public\Documents\My Python programs\role_playing_game1.py", line 26, in point_total += val TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +=: 'int' and 'str' On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:

Re: [Tutor] role playing game - help needed

2010-12-08 Thread Al Stern
+= val print ("\nThis is how you have chosen to allocate your 30 points.") print ("\nStrength:",(attributes["strength"])) print ("Health:", (attributes["health"])) print ("Wisdom:", (attributes["wisdom&quo

[Tutor] Dictionaries - Using 1 Key:Value to find another

2010-12-11 Thread Al Stern
This was another execise in my book. Following is my code for a program that uses dictionaries to find and edit pairs of fathers and sons. The program works right up to the final step which is to find out if any given father is actually a grandfather to someone else in the dictionary. I set up m

Re: [Tutor] Dictionaries - Using 1 Key:Value to find another

2010-12-11 Thread Al Stern
print ("\nSorry.", grandfather, "is not a grandfather. Try again.") Thanks all. _   www.electronsbaseball.com -Original Message- From: David [mailto:bouncingc...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 6:35 PM To: Al Stern Cc: tutor@