[Tutor] Paper Rock Scissors game - User's choice not returned properly
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Tue Nov 1 00:10:05 CET 2011
Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 31/10/11 20:22, Peter Otten wrote:
>> Alan Gauld wrote:
>>
>>> if choice.lower() not in ('prs'): # NB use a single string
>>
>> That's not a good idea. If a user accidentally enters PR (for example)
>> your
>> version will mistake that for a valid choice.
>
> Good point, although you could test the first character only...
>
> if choice[0].lower() not in ('prs'): # NB use a single string
Why would you do that? If the user is supposed to enter a single letter,
why would you accept (for example) "screw you hippy, I hate this game!"
as the valid response "s"?
--
Steven
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