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Restart Error when using code from lesson book - Kathleen57 - Mar-11-2020 Hi. I am very new to programming but am trying to learn Python. I am using Coding Projects in Python by DK. It's supposed to be a guessing game. Using IDLE, I type in the code which I copied from the book but get this restart error: >>> = RESTART: C:\Users\kchristy\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\nine_lives.py >>> Here is the code I typed in IDLE: import random lives = 9 words = ['pizza', 'dance', 'kitty', 'puppy', 'snowy', 'sleep', 'scale', 'tulip', 'cacti', 'plane', 'otter', 'shirt', 'fairy', 'angel', 'plate', 'email','horse'] secret_word = random.choice(words) clue = list('?????') heart_symbol = u'\u2764' guessed_word_correctly = False def update_clue(guessed_letter, secret_word, clue): index = 0 while index < len(secret_word): if guessed_letter == secret_word[index]: clue[index] = guessed_letter index = index + 1 while lives > 0: print(clue) print('Lives left: ' + heart_symbol * lives) guess = input('Guess a letter or the whole word: ') if guess == secret_word: guessed_word_correctly = True break if guess in secret_word: update_clue(guess, secret_word, clue) else: print('Incorrect. You lose a life') lives = lives - 1 if guessed_word_correctly: print('You won! The secret word was ' + secret_word) else: print ('You lost! The correct word was ' + secret_word) I appreciate any help! Thank you. RE: Restart Error when using code from lesson book - deanhystad - Mar-11-2020 I think you have a problem with your indents as the code runs fine for me after some formatting: import random lives = 9 words = ['pizza', 'dance', 'kitty', 'puppy', 'snowy', 'sleep', 'scale', 'tulip', 'cacti', 'plane', 'otter', 'shirt', 'fairy', 'angel', 'plate', 'email','horse'] secret_word = random.choice(words) clue = list('?????') heart_symbol = u'\u2764' guessed_word_correctly = False def update_clue(guessed_letter, secret_word, clue): index = 0 while index < len(secret_word): if guessed_letter == secret_word[index]: clue[index] = guessed_letter index = index + 1 while lives > 0: print(clue) print('Lives left: ' + heart_symbol * lives) guess = input('Guess a letter or the whole word: ') if guess == secret_word: guessed_word_correctly = True break if guess in secret_word: update_clue(guess, secret_word, clue) else: print('Incorrect. You lose a life') lives = lives - 1 if guessed_word_correctly: print('You won! The secret word was ' + secret_word) else: print ('You lost! The correct word was ' + secret_word)I'm would like to see your code with indents. I'm curious about the error you are seeing and what could be causing it. Try posting your code surrounded by … RE: Restart Error when using code from lesson book - Kathleen57 - Mar-13-2020 When I copied and pasted it I didn't realize that the indents didn't paste properly. On my original, I did indent. But the fact that it worked for you might mean that I don't actually have all the lines correctly indented. I will check and let you know if that changes anything. Thank you. Thank you. The indents were not all correct. And I think I know why I had trouble reading them. The code examples in the lesson book are in separate blocks so I didn't pay attention to the indents. At any rate, it seems to work! Except now I will tinker with it. Again, thank you. |