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MikeVita4
MikeVita4

Reputation: 53

How to make a remote control in Python 3 that keeps asking for an input from a list of commands?

I need help making a program that functions as a remote control. I'm not sure how to make a list from the different options that the user can choose. And then if it's not right just keep asking until the user powers the TV off. And it keeps giving me indentation errors, I need some advice with what I'm doing wrong, maybe some formatting and help simplifying my code but with nothing too advanced since I'm on my first semester of CS. It's basically def/return, while/for loops, and if/elif/else statements. Below is my code and directions (that I don't understand too well)

Directions

Code

op1 =print ("'P' or 'p' Turns the power on")
op2 =print ("‘1’,’2’,’3’,’4’,’5’ Set a channel to the specified number")
op3 =print ("‘C+’ or ‘c+’ Add one to the current channel number")
op4 =print ("‘C-’ or ‘c-’ Subtract one to the current channel number")
op5 =print ("‘V+’ or ‘v+’ Add one to the current volume level")
op6 =print ("‘V-’ or ‘v-’ Subtract one from the current volume level")
op7 =print ("‘M’ or ‘m’ Mute the current volume level")
op0 =print ("‘X’ or ‘x’ Turn off the tv and exit the program")
print()

powerOff=False
channel =3
volume = 5
while powerOff !=False: 
  choice = input("Choose one of the above options: ")
  while choice is not "x" or "X":
    if choice == "x" or "X":
        powerOff == True
    elif choice == "P" or "p":
        powerOff=False
    if choice == volume and powerOff == False:
        if choice == "M" or "m":
            volume = 0
        elif choice == "V+" or "v+":
            volume+= 1
        elif choice == "V-" or "v-":
            volume= volume - 1
        elif choice == channel and powerOff == False:
            if choice == "1" or "2" or "3" or "4" or "5":
                channel == choice
            elif choice == "C+" or "c+":
                channel += 1
            elif choice == "C-" or "c-":
                channel = channel - 1
        else
            choice == powerOff
print (choice)
    choice = choice

Again, I just need advice to learn how to make this work and in a simpler way so I can apply it in the future, thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1438

Answers (2)

BoarGules
BoarGules

Reputation: 16952

There are a couple of mistakes here.

  1. Your outer while loop will never get executed because you start by setting powerOff to False.

  2. The test if choice == "x" or "X": doesn't do what you think it does. It needs to be if choice.upper() == "X": or if choice in ("x","X"):. That needs to be fixed in 9 places, including the inner while.

  3. Indentation is wrong in the last 2 lines: the print() call needs to be inside the while loop.

  4. Assigning the value of the print() function to op1 etc does nothing useful, beyond printing the instructions. The variables will all have the value None.

Upvotes: 2

SarwarKhan
SarwarKhan

Reputation: 143

while(True):
    X= input("enter the command")
    """do what ever you want here""""

this will always ask for a single variable and you can check with if/else. use hold if you want to hold the asking statement.

Upvotes: 0

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