highscores list

[Chris]

On Dec 8, 10:07 pm, Chris <cwi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 8, 8:32 pm, Shawn Minisall <trekker... at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm writing a game that uses two functions to check and see if a file
> > called highScoresList.txt exists in the main dir of the game program.
> > If it doesn, it creates one.  That part is working fine.  The problem is
> > arising when it goes to read in the high scores from the file when I
> > play again.
>
> > This is the error msg python is giving me
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
> >    main()
> >  File "I:\PYTHON\PROJECT #3\PROJECT3.PYW", line 330, in main
> >    if(hasHighScore(wins) == True):
> >  File "I:\PYTHON\PROJECT #3\PROJECT3.PYW", line 175, in hasHighScore
> >    scores[i],names[i] = string.split(line,"\t")
> > ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
>
> > Here's the relavant code:
>
> > def hasHighScore(score):
> >     #opens highScoresList.txt
> >     infile = open("highScoresList.txt",'r')
> >     scores = [0,0,0]
> >     names = ["","",""]
>
> >     #reads in scores from highScoresList.txt
> >     i=0
> >     for line in infile.readlines():
> >         scores[i],names[i] = string.split(line,"\t")
> >         names[i]=string.rstrip(names[i])
> >         i += 1
> >     infile.close()
>
> >     #compares player's score with those in highScoresList.txt
> >     i=0
> >     for i in range(0,len(scores)):
> >         if(score > int(scores[i])):
> >             return True
> >         else:
> >             return False
>
> > def setHighScores(score,name):
> >     #opens highScoresList.txt
> >     infile = open("highScoresList.txt",'r')
> >     scores = [0,0,0]
> >     names = ["","",""]
>
> >     #reads in scores from highScoresList.txt
> >     i=0
> >     for line in infile.readlines():
> >         scores[i],names[i] = string.split(line,"\t")
> >         scores[i]=int(scores[i])
> >         names[i]=string.rstrip(names[i])
> >         i += 1
> >     infile.close()
>
> >     #shuffles thru the highScoresList.txt and inserts player's score if
> > higher then those in file
> >     i=len(scores)
> >     while(score > scores[i-1] and i>0):
> >         i -= 1
>
> >     scores.insert(i,score)
> >     names.insert(i,name)
> >     scores.pop(len(scores)-1)
> >     names.pop(len(names)-1)
>
> >     #writes new highScoresList.txt
> >     outfile = open("highScoresList.txt","w")
>
> >     outfile.write ("     High Score                 Name             \n")
> >     outfile.write ("-------------------------------------------------\n")
>
> >     i=0
> >     for i in range(0,len(scores)):
> >         outfile.write("\t" + str(scores[i]) + "\t\t\t" + names[i] + "\n")
> >     outfile.close()
>
> > And here's the call to the functions at the end of my game, included in
> > the error msg.
>
> >     #adds player's score to high score list if high enough
> >     if(hasHighScore(wins) == True):
> >         setHighScores(wins,getName(wins))
>
> > And this is what the text file looks like when it happens.
>
> >      High Score                 Name
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >     15                              SHAWN
> >     0
> >     0
>
> > The answer is probably simple, I've just been working on this program so
> > long that my brain has turned to mush.  Any help would be much
> > appreciated...thanks.
>
> Your first two lines in your highscores file has no Tab Characters.
> When reading the file you could do:
>
> for (i, line) in file_input:
>     if i < 2:
>         continue
>
>     # do normal file parsing
>
> There are better ways to structure your code though, but that's for
> you.

Apologies, I meant 'in enumerate(file_input)'