Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-07 Thread Eric Evenson
How about doing it this way: def is_yes(question): yn = { 'y':True, 'yes':True, 'n':False, 'no':False } while True: try: return yn[raw_input(question).lower().strip()] except KeyError: print '\nplease select y, n, yes, or no\n' ___

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-07 Thread Alan Gauld
tring. The OP didn't have that limitation to deal with. Alan G. > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > Of Alan Gauld > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:45 AM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-07 Thread David Heiser
program was: i++ On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, David Heiser wrote: > or.. > > def is_yes(question): > while True: > try: > s = raw_input(question).lower()[0] > if s == 'y': > return True > elif s =

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-07 Thread David Heiser
What if the user enters "maybe". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Gauld Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:45 AM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++ "David Heiser" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-07 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, David Heiser wrote: > or.. > > def is_yes(question): > while True: > try: > s = raw_input(question).lower()[0] > if s == 'y': > return True > elif s == 'n': > return False > except: >

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-07 Thread Alan Gauld
"David Heiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > def is_yes(question): > while True: > try: > s = raw_input(question).lower()[0] > if s == 'y': > return True > elif s == 'n': > return False > except: >

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-06 Thread David Heiser
he condition where a user just presses enter print '\nplease select y, n, yes, or no\n' -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of scott Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 3:08 PM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Engarde progr

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-06 Thread scott
Danny Yoo wrote: > Double check the definition of mfile_read(). It has a possible type > error in terms of the values it returns back to the user. Oh, I see. I forgot to change the "if file does not exist part" when i changed the other half. I have changed it and is seems to work when there i

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-06 Thread scott
Alan Gauld wrote: > You never change i so this is always true. > Therefore you can express that better with... Thanks for your suggestions, I put together the following based on them: ## def is_yes(question): while True: s = raw_input(questi

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-06 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, scott wrote: > Danny Yoo wrote: >> In the context of the new Master_stats class, it makes more sense for >> mfile_read() to return a Master_stats object now rather than a two-tuple >> list. > I was able to change the [year, month] to just master and it worked fine. I > w

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > added one in. I assume that it is good programming practise to > close > all open files when they are not needed anymore? Yes, its good practice. > I wrote the is_yes as follows and it seems to work fine. Almost, but not quite ideal, see below: >

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-06 Thread scott
Danny Yoo wrote: In the context of the new Master_stats class, it makes more sense for mfile_read() to return a Master_stats object now rather than a two-tuple list. I was able to change the [year, month] to just master and it worked fine. I was also able to do master = mfile_read() and it wor

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-05 Thread Danny Yoo
> There where some values I did not want saved to the character file. A couple > where values that are for all characters, so I put them into their own class. > > ### > class Master_stats: > def __init__(self, year, month): > self.year = year > self

Re: [Tutor] Engarde program was: i++

2007-06-05 Thread scott
Danny Yoo wrote: I will work at your suggestions and will get back to you if I have any problems. Good! Keep the folks on Python-Tutor up to date with your progress. Here is the code changes I made based on your suggestions: I put all the values together into a class ###