[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 118, Issue 64
Rishi Ganesh V
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Fri Dec 13 18:40:36 CET 2013
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On 13-Dec-2013 11:01 PM, <tutor-request at python.org> wrote:
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> 1. Re: Coding for a Secret Message in a Game (Steven D'Aprano)
> 2. Re: Coding for a Secret Message in a Game (spir)
> 3. Using python's smtp server (Vincent Davis)
> 4. Re: Using python's smtp server (Mark Lawrence)
> 5. Re: Using python's smtp server (Vincent Davis)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 22:00:02 +1100
> From: Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
> To: tutor at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Coding for a Secret Message in a Game
> Message-ID: <20131213105959.GL29356 at ando>
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> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:10:31PM -0500, Sky blaze wrote:
>
> > Here's the code I currently have so far:
> > print("===INSTRUCTIONS===")
> > input(">> ")
>
> Are you using Python 3? Is so, that's fine, but in Python 2 you should
> use raw_input instead.
>
> > print("When you see a \'>>\', hit Enter to advance the text.")
>
> There's no need for the backslashes to escape the quotes. Python uses
> two different quotes especially so you can put one sort inside the
> other:
>
> "Here you don't need to escape the single quote."
> 'He turned to me and said, "Is that a fact?"'
>
>
> > start = False #This is the start screen check
> > print("Type \"start\" to begin.") #Command message to start the game
> > start_prompt = input("> ") #Command prompt to start the game
> > while start != True: #Infinite loop that doesn't end until "start" is
> typed
> > if start_prompt == "start":
> > start = True #Continues from the title screen
>
> First off, let me show you how I would do this command prompt without
> changing the message.
>
> answer = ""
> while answer != 'start':
> print("Type 'START' to begin.")
> # Ignore leading and trailing spaces, and UPPER/lower case.
> answer = input("> ").strip().lower()
>
>
> That will loop forever, or until the user types "start", regardless of
> case. "StArT" or any other combination will be accepted, as will spaces
> at the start or end of the word.
>
> How do we add a changing prompt? We need to know when to change the
> prompt, and to do that, we need to count how many times we've been
> around the loop. Here's my first version, which changes the prompt only
> once:
>
> answer = ""
> prompt = "Type 'START' to begin."
> count = 0
> while answer != 'start':
> count += 1
> if count == 10:
> prompt = "Y U NO TYPE 'START'???"
> print(prompt)
> # Ignore leading and trailing spaces, and UPPER/lower case.
> answer = input("> ").strip().lower()
>
>
> That's okay for what it is, but what if you wanted more than two
> different prompts? Here's a third version which uses a function that
> returns the required prompt.
>
>
> def get_prompt(loop_number):
> if loop_number == 1:
> return "Enter 'START' to begin the game."
> if 2 <= loop_number < 5:
> return ("I'm sorry, I don't know that response."
> " Enter 'START' to begin the game.")
> if 5 <= loop_number < 10:
> return "Type the word 'START' then press the Enter key."
> return "Y U NO TYPE 'START'???"
>
>
> answer = ""
> count = 0
> while answer != 'start':
> count += 1
> print(get_prompt(count))
> # Ignore leading and trailing spaces, and UPPER/lower case.
> answer = input("> ").strip().lower()
>
>
>
> --
> Steven
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:40:02 +0100
> From: spir <denis.spir at gmail.com>
> To: tutor at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Coding for a Secret Message in a Game
> Message-ID: <52AAF212.40509 at gmail.com>
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> On 12/13/2013 05:10 AM, Sky blaze wrote:
> > Hi, I'm a newbie Python programmer. I was introduced to Python via the
> Hour
> > of Code, and after completing all three of Grok Learning's tutorials, I
> was
> > inspired to create a text-based RPG adventure. I composed this e-mail
> after
> > searching for a forum for Python, and this address showed up in one of
> the
> > results.
> >
> > Due to my inexperience with Python, I'm having trouble creating a code
> for
> > one of the things I wanted to do for the game. The game starts out on a
> > "title screen" with a message saying, "Type 'start' to begin!" I thought
> > it'd be amusing to have the message change after the player types
> something
> > other than "start" at least 10 times. I've attempted numerous times to
> code
> > this, but all of them have failed. Could you help me with the coding? It
> > should look something like this in the end:
> >
>
> Welcome to Prog Land!
>
> Others have answered about counting in a loop. Here are a few other
> comments:
>
> As you obviously have understood by yourself, one wonderful thing with
> programming is that we can do what we want, as we want it. We can invent
> worlds,
> like what you have in mind for an RPG. It frees imagination.
>
> However, like any complicated domain, there is problem of dimension. If
> you want
> to enjoy programming for a long time, instead of being quickly fed up,
> maybe
> consider sizing your projects according to your knowledge & experience --
> as
> well as energy & time available.
>
> A trick is to explore and develop little bits that can be run or tested
> independantly, while they let you discover and learn how to do things.
> Something
> challenging enough to be fun, but that won't let you in the dark for
> years. This
> user-input problem you chose is a good example for start, i guess.
>
> Some possibilities; how to:
> * simulate dice, like 2d10, and have events show up with given probability
> * define an output format for user interaction
> * define a character/monster with given properties (strength, speed,
> HPs...)
> * store objects and special capacities on beeings (units)
> * represent a playing land with rooms and pathes (dungeon)
> * find a path
> * connect objects/capacities with actions (a key for a door open)
> * represent the logic of game events (when this and that, then thut)
> * represent the logic of game progress (they've reached this point of the
> objective)
> ?
>
> Thanks for sharing your excitement! If you go on your RPG (and even if
> not),
> this mailing list is here for help. You'll have to learn about functions of
> different kinds and various data structures, how to have them serve you,
> not the
> opposite, how to let them interact while not ending up with a big mess out
> of
> comprehension...
>
> Denis
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 09:48:36 -0700
> From: Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net>
> To: tutor at python.org
> Subject: [Tutor] Using python's smtp server
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> I have an app that generates a file one a day and would like to email it
> using python's SMTP server.
> http://docs.python.org/2/library/smtpd.html#smtpd.SMTPServer
> The documentation is kinda sparse and I cant seem to find any good
> examples.
>
> Basically what I want to do; when my app runs it would initiate a SMTP
> server, send the attachment and shutdown the SMTP after.
>
> Vincent Davis
> 720-301-3003
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> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:07:47 +0000
> From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: tutor at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Using python's smtp server
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> On 13/12/2013 16:48, Vincent Davis wrote:
> > I have an app that generates a file one a day and would like to email it
> > using python's SMTP server.
> > http://docs.python.org/2/library/smtpd.html#smtpd.SMTPServer
> > The documentation is kinda sparse and I cant seem to find any good
> examples.
> >
> > Basically what I want to do; when my app runs it would initiate a SMTP
> > server, send the attachment and shutdown the SMTP after.
> >
> > Vincent Davis
> > 720-301-3003
> >
>
> Please refer to the answer you've already received on the main Python
> mailing list.
>
> --
> My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
> what you can do for our language.
>
> Mark Lawrence
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:28:46 -0700
> From: Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net>
> To: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: tutor at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Using python's smtp server
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> Mark,
> Thanks mark, It had been about 15hr since I posted to
> python-list at python.organd had not seen a response so I thought I would
> try
> tutor.python.org.
> Well I got a response now, not that it helped, but I respond on that list.
> Thanks again.
>
> Vincent Davis
> 720-301-3003
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
> >wrote:
>
> > On 13/12/2013 16:48, Vincent Davis wrote:
> >
> >> I have an app that generates a file one a day and would like to email it
> >> using python's SMTP server.
> >> http://docs.python.org/2/library/smtpd.html#smtpd.SMTPServer
> >> The documentation is kinda sparse and I cant seem to find any good
> >> examples.
> >>
> >> Basically what I want to do; when my app runs it would initiate a SMTP
> >> server, send the attachment and shutdown the SMTP after.
> >>
> >> Vincent Davis
> >> 720-301-3003
> >>
> >>
> > Please refer to the answer you've already received on the main Python
> > mailing list.
> >
> > --
> > My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what
> > you can do for our language.
> >
> > Mark Lawrence
> >
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