[Tutor] GameTracker help

[Mike Nickey]

Hey all,

I'm trying to wok on a game tracker for my friends. What I have here
partly works but there are areas that I want to change and some areas
that are just not working for me.

The areas that I am having difficulty with are the def pointsNeeded
and oppPointsNeeded.
What is strange to me is that I had pointsNeeded almost exactly as
oppPointsNeeded and only pointsNeeded worked.

I'd like to change this to one function since it does the same thing.
I've tried using a dictionary but that does not seem to be working
well either.

Any advice would be great.
Thanks in advance.

CODE
#===============================================================================
# Get users name -- DONE
# Get Users opponent name DONE
# Get user opponents APA number --DONE
# get users APA number -- DONE
# Determine if this is 8-ball or 9-ball -- DONE
# create number of points needed to win for 9-ball
# create number of games needed to win for 8-ball
# Get Users skill level -- DONE
# get users current opponent skill level -- DONE
# get number of innings played
# number of defenses played
# record who won and lost
#===============================================================================
import __builtin__
import string

pointDictionary = {1:14, 2:19, 3:25, 4:31, 5:38, 6:46, 7:55, 8:65, 9:75}

def getUserName():
    return raw_input("Enter your name: ")

def getUserOppName():
    return raw_input ("Enter your opponents name: ")

def getUserNumber():
    UserID = raw_input("Enter your APA ID number: ")
    while (str.isdigit(UserID)==False):
        UserID = raw_input("That is not a proper ID. Please re-enter
your APA number: ")
    return UserID

def getUserOppNumber():
    OppUserID = raw_input("Enter your opponents APA ID number: ")
    while (str.isdigit(OppUserID)==False):
        UserID = raw_input("That is not a proper ID. Please re-enter
your opponents APA number: ")
    return OppUserID

def getGameType():
    temp = 0
    while temp == 0:
        GameType = raw_input("Are you playing 8-ball or 9-ball? ")
        if GameType == "8":
            print "Good luck and don't get an early 8"
            GameType = 8
            temp = 1
        elif GameType == "9":
            print "Good luck! Let's hope you sink the stripe on the break!"
            GameType = 9
            temp = 1
        else:
            print "That's not a valid entry, Please try again.: "
    return int(GameType)

def CheckRange8Ball(GameType, min=1, max=8):
    if not min <= GameType <= max:
        raise ValueError('Value out of range')

def getUserSkillLvl(GameType):
    if GameType == 8:
        UserSkillLvl = prompt = "Enter your current 8-ball skill level: "
    elif GameType == 9:
        UserSkillLvl = prompt = "Enter your current 9-ball level:"

    UserSkillLvl = raw_input(prompt)
    UserSkillLvl = int(UserSkillLvl)

    if GameType == 9:
        temp = 0
        while temp == 0:
            if ((UserSkillLvl <= 9) and (UserSkillLvl >=1)):
                print "Thank You"
                temp = 1
                break
            elif ((UserSkillLvl >9) or (UserSkillLvl < 1)):
                while temp == 0:
                    UserSkillLvl = raw_input("Please re-enter your
9-ball skill level")
                    return UserSkillLvl

    if GameType == 8:
        temp = 0
        while temp == 0:
            if ((UserSkillLvl <= 8) and (UserSkillLvl >=1)):
                print "thank you"
                temp = 1
                break
            elif (UserSkillLvl >8) or (UserSkillLvl < 1):
                while temp == 0:
                    UserSkillLvl = raw_input("Please re-enter your
skill level: ")
    return UserSkillLvl

def getUserOppSkillLvl():
    UserOppSkillLvl = raw_input("Enter your opponents current skill level: ")
    while (str.isdigit(UserOppSkillLvl)==False):
        UserOppSkillLvl = raw_input("That is not a proper Skill Level. \
        Please enter a number between 1 and 9 for 9-ball or 1 and 8
for 8-ball: ")
        UserOppSkillLvl = int(UserOppSkillLvl)
    return UserOppSkillLvl

def getPointsNeeded():
    if (GameType == 9):
        for UserSkillLvl in range (0, len(pointDictionary)):
            pointsNeeded = pointDictionary(UserSkillLvl)
    return pointsNeeded

def getOppPointsNeeded():
    if (GameType == 9):
        if (UserOppSkillLvl == 9):
            oppPointsNeeded = 75
        elif (UserOppSkillLvl == 8):
            oppPointsNeeded = 65
        elif (UserOppSkillLvl == 7):
            oppPointsNeeded = 55
        elif(UserOppSkillLvl == 6):
            oppPointsNeeded = 46
        elif (UserOppSkillLvl == 5):
            oppPointsNeeded = 38
        elif (UserOppSkillLvl == 4):
            oppPointsNeeded = 31
        elif (UserOppSkillLvl == 3):
            oppPointsNeeded = 25
        elif (UserOppSkillLvl == 2):
            oppPointsNeeded = 19
        elif (UserOppSkillLvl == 1):
            oppPointsNeeded = 14
    return oppPointsNeeded

UserName = getUserName()
UserOppName = getUserOppName()
UserID = getUserNumber()
OppUserID = getUserOppNumber()
GameType = getGameType()
UserSkillLvl = getUserSkillLvl(GameType)
UserOppSkillLvl = getUserOppSkillLvl()

print "\nPlayer Name:",UserName, "\nOpponent Name:", UserOppName,
"\nUser ID: ",UserID, "\nOpponent APA ID", OppUserID, \
"\nGameType: ",GameType,"\nUser Skill Level: ",UserSkillLvl, "\nUser
Opponents Level: ",UserOppSkillLvl

pointsNeeded = getPointsNeeded()
oppPointsNeeded = getOppPointsNeeded()
print "\nYou need", pointsNeeded, "to win while your opponent needs",
oppPointsNeeded,"."


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