Coordinate Grid Points

[Eric.Gabrielson at gmail.com]

On Feb 5, 3:29 pm, James Stroud <jstr... at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Eric.Gabriel... at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello,
> >        I am very knew to python and am attempting to write a program
> > in python that a friend of mine is having to write in java. I am doing
> > this for fun and would like some help as to how i can generate random
> > coordinate points (x,y) and compare them with user inputted coordinate
> > points. For example how will I be able to access the separate values,
> > the x from the x,y position. I think I understand everything except
> > 1)the random coordinate points 2) the getting the users inputted x and
> > y values in one line ("Please guess a coordinate point from (1,1) to
> > (20,20): ") as opposed to  ("Please enter an x value:" and "Please
> > enter a y value") and finally 3) acessing the x value from the x,y
> > coordinate function. the assignment description is located here http://
> >www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/142/07wi/homework/
> > homework.html if you would like to see a more in depth discription of
> > the game.
>
> > Many Thanks,
> > Eric
>
> For 1: see the random module (e.g. random.randint)
> For 2: see the "eval" function and "raw input"
> For 2 (without cheating): see the re module. For example:
> *****************************************************************************
>  ***map(int, re.compile("\(?(\d+),(\d+)\)?").search(inpt).groups())****
> *****************************************************************************
> (Giving you the latter because eval will do this for you anyway.)
>
> Also see "raw_input".
>
> James

Thank you very much for your response i will play around with the code
when I have some time ( hopefully later tonight) but could you please
breakdown what the part that I surrounded with asterisks, I think I
recognize it but don't understand it.

Eric