Need help improving number guessing game

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

feba a écrit :
> Alright! This is feeling more like it.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> #Py3k, UTF-8
> import random
> 
(snip)

> def youwin(game):
>     if game['pnum'] == 1:
>         print("CONGRATULATIONS! IT TOOK YOU %s GUESSES" % game
> ['gcount'])
>     else:
>         if game['player'] == game['player1']:
>             game['p1sc'] += 1
>         else:
>             game['p2sc'] += 1


If you had initialized your "game" dict with

player1 = dict(score=0)
player2 = dict(score=0),

game = dict(
     player1 = player1,
     player2 = player2
     player = player1
     # ...
     )


you wouldn't need the test on
   game['player'] == game["player1"]

, and could just use:

   game["player"]["score"] += 1

(snip)

> first off, I want to thank all of you for your help with this. I
> really don't think I could've learned all of this out nearly as
> quickly by reading tutorials and documentation, let alone had anything
> near the grasp I have on it now. '''This''' is why I like learning by
> doing. The only things I still don't really understand are .strip
> ().lower(), 

.strip() returns a copy of the string without leading and ending 
whitespaces (inlcuding newlines, tabs etc). .lower() returns a copy of 
the string in all lowercases. Since .strip() returns a string object, 
you can chain method calls.

" yaDDA\n".strip().lower()

is just a shortcut for

thestring = " yaDDA\n"
tmp1 = thestring.strip() # => "yaDDA"
tmp2 = tmp1.lower() # => "yadda"

> and try/except/else, and I plan on looking them up before
> I do anything else. In the past few hours I've gone from not having a
> clue what the whole {'fred': 0, 'barney': 0} thing was about to being
> able to fully understand what you're talking about, and put it into
> practice

Quite close... You still failed to understand how dicts could be used to 
   replace 'if/else' statements (dict-base dispatch is very idiomatic in 
Python, and is also a good introduction to OO).

(snip)

> 5; I added the ability for it to automatically complete when there's
> only one option left. I was amazed' I was actually going to ask for
> advice on how to do it here. I was going to say "I was thinking (blah
> blah)", but then I just typed it in, and it worked flawlessly.

Yeps. That's probably why most of us here fell in love with Python: it 
makes simple thing simple, and tend to JustWork(tm).

> 6; can anyone think of anything else to add on to/do with this game?

rewrite it once again using objects instead of dicts ?

Anyway, thanks for sharing your enthusiasm with us.