Python - would you like to play again error

Supercell · 02-11-2014 11:22am #1

I'm very new to Python and am struggling to figure out how get it to handle wrong input.
I want to end the code with a question do you want to play again y/n ?
However I can't figure out how to handle if the user doesn't answer y or n
So my overall code looks like

while True:
.
<code>
.
   restart = input("Would you like to play again y/n?\n")
   if restart == "n":
     break
print ("Goodbye", playername)

I've tried putting:

 elif restart != "y":
 restart = input("Ups looks like you didn't enter a valid answer, please enter y or n")

But its not working, really hoping someone can help here!

Thanks.

deconduo · 02-11-2014 2:27pm

You're pretty close. What you need is for the valid answer test to be in a while loop as well. For example:

while True:
    print("Playing the game")
    restart = input("Would you like to play again y/n?\n")
    while restart not in ("y", "n"):
        restart = input("Ups looks like you didn't enter a valid answer, please enter y or n\n")
    if restart == "n":
        break
        print ("Goodbye")

This way it keeps checking for restart to either be 'y' or 'n', and won't break out of the loop until that condition is true.

Supercell · 02-11-2014 5:15pm

deconduo, If i could give you a million thanks I would!!, it works great

This had me driven to distraction!, I had tried a while loop but was trying it with "y" or "n" , i hadn't come across 'not in' yet
Thanks again !

Python - would you like to play again error

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