[Tutor] role playing game - help needed

[Alan Gauld]

"Al Stern" <albstern at gmail.com> wrote

> attributes = {"strength": 0, "health": 0, "wisdom": 0, "dexterity": 
> 0}
> MAX_POINTS = 30
>
> How do I set the variable for available_points?
>
> available_points = MAX_POINTS - (not sure what goes here)

Check the mail from Robert Sjoblom, he gives you the necessary clues.
You can check the archive a few weeks back(21st Nov) for his question
too and get some alternative options and discussion.

> attributes["strength"] = input("\nHow many points do you want to 
> assign to
> strength?: ")
>
> Please let me know if this isn't advisable.  It seems to work on the
> surface.

Close, but remember that input() returns a string. You need numbers
so you need to convert strings to integers.

HTH,


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