CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonwhile-loop
Taylor
Taylor

Reputation: 13

Why does my while loop end before the final message is printed? Is it my code or...?

I made a guessing game where the player has 10 HP and has to randomly guess a number between 1 and 3 for multiple rounds until they've guessed correctly a total of 3 times.

I coped my code into a notepad file and saved it as 123game.py, then right-clicked and ran it using Python 3.8. When I did this, an odd thing happened.

I wanted a win message to say "It's over! Thank you for playing." But when the player guesses right for the 3rd time, Python just shuts down.

However I did not have the problem when I simply copy/pasted my code into Python. Is it my code that's wrong? Or should I not save a notepad file as .py and tell windows to open it by default with Python 3.8? I didn't have the problem with Pycharm.

import random
HP = 10
finish = 3
correct = [0]

while finish >= 0:
    value = random.randint(1, 3)
    correct.append(value)
    print("\nTry guessing a number 1, 2, or 3:")
    answer = int(input())
    if finish == 0:
        print("It's over! Thank you for playing.")
        break
    if HP == 0:
        print("You lose! Sorry.")
        break
    if answer > 3 or answer < 1:
        print("Out of bounds")
        continue
    if answer == value:
        print("correct")
        print(f"The answer was {correct[-1]}.")
        print(f"HP left: {HP}")
        finish -= 1
        print(f"correct answers until finish: {finish}")
    else:
        print("incorrect")
        print(f"The answer was {correct[-1]}.")
        HP -= 1
        print(f"HP left: {HP}")
        print(f"correct answers until finish: {finish}")
        continue

Upvotes: 0

Views: 157

Answers (1)

faressalem
faressalem

Reputation: 664

Add input() at the end of the script. It waits for any type of input from the user but without prompting him/her like input(”Enter something: ”) for example. Then the program ends (the same way it ended before, because there’s nothing else to execute) after pressing Return/Enter (so just press enter to exit the program). it’s naive, better consider the comments.

input() # or input(”Press Enter to exit”)`

Upvotes: 1

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