[Tutor] Trying to select an input from another Python file & output that input in the main game program

[David Rock]

* D Rochester <rh at saintbedes.net> [2021-06-17 12:50]:
> Good afternoon,
> 
> The first file (Noels_Music_Game) is for authenticating the users and it
> looks at a csv file called 'users'. I have added another player to this
> file so that it now spans 4 columns with the 1st & 3rd entries being the
> users and the 2nd & 4th entries being the passwords. This element of the
> code works fine and gives access to the game using a simple IF statement
> detailed below;

Just a quick observation/question first:

Why do you have the users.csv set up this way?  It would simplify your code a
lot if you had only two columns: user and password

The list of users is begging to be a list of rows, one pair of information for
each user, rather than trying to add horizontally.  What happens when you need
to add a third user; a fourth?  It's not maintainable.

There's also a logic problem with doing it horizontally: the wrong password can
match against the wrong user.  In other words, if you enter user2's name and
user1's password, you will still authenticate.  I doubt that's your intention.

Try using the csv module and use the userids as keys to search against to
compare the entered password.  That might help with the rest of the work.


-- 
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com