[pygame] Re: Question - Comparing strings

[escapedpolarbear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Ah, terribly sorry.
But thanks for the help,
    -Esc

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On Sep 4, 2:08 pm, "Charlie Nolan" <funnyman3...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Glad to see a new newbie, it's the only way to get experts.  On the
> other hand, this is the *pygame* mailing list.  We use python, but
> it's not exactly the topic at hand.  For more general discussion, try
> one of the places listed here:http://python.org/community/
>
> That said, I'm a nice guy, so you get a free pass this time.  It
> sounds like you've probably got whitespace hanging around that you
> don't want.  Try changing this:
> print "the word was", word, "and you guessed", guess
> to this:
> print "the word was %r and you guessed %r" % (word, guess)
>
> My guess is that you'll get something like this printed out:
> the word was 'cheese\n' and you guessed 'cheese'
>
> In that case, just add .strip() to the end of whichever line you set
> that variable on, so in my example, it'd change this:
> word = WordSelection()
> to this:
> word = WordSelection().strip()
>
> -FM
>
> On 9/4/08, escapedpolarb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> <escapedpolarb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hey,
> > I only recently found out about Python and started looking at it a
> > week ago. It seems like a brilliant coding language.
>
> >  I'm starting by making a small simple "guess the word" (hangman
> > clone) type game. The game selects a random word from a .txt file
> > (with the option to either use the standard txt file or enter your
> > own).
>
> > The two problems I have is:
> > 1. When I compare the word the person guesses and the word the program
> > chose, it treats it as the "wrong word" no matter what.
>
> > 2. When I try puttin a number on the first line of the file (to be
> > used in the random number generator so that it cuts the range down to
> > between 2 and number-of-lines-in-file) I get: "TypeError: cannot
> > concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects"
>
> > I'm completely new at this, and I can't seem to find a sollution in
> > any of the documentation or tutorial pages...
>
> > the code:
> > import random     # Imports lib for random function
> > import linecache  # Imports lib for reading one line from a file
>
> > def WordSelection():
> >    WordListFile = raw_input("enter word list file name, or choose the
> > (d)efault list: ")
> >    if WordListFile == "default" or "default" or "Default" or "d" or "D":
> >            WordListFile = "WordList.txt"
> >    MaxLine = linecache.getline(WordListFile, 1)
> >    GottenWord = linecache.getline(WordListFile, random.randint(2,
> > MaxLine))
> >    return GottenWord
>
> > print "Welcome to Guess The Word"
> > print "v0.1b by: Esc"
> > word = WordSelection()
> > print "the word is: ", word
> > guess = raw_input()
> > print "the word was", word, "and you guessed", guess
>
> > if guess == word:
> >    print "well done, that was correct."
> > else:
> >    print "to bad, that was incorrect."
>
> > The .txt file:
> > 5                                                 <- the highest
> > random number
> > cheese                                   \
> > apple                                        } The words that the
> > program reads
> > pear                                          } and uses in the game.
> > nut                                           /
>
> > When I remove MaxLine and put in 4 instead it works like a charm.
>
> > hope someone can help,
> >     - esc