I'm fairly new to programming in general and have been learning python3 for the last week or so. I tried building a dice roller and ran into an issue when asking the user if they wanted to repeat the roller or end the program.
import random as dice
d100 = dice.randint(1,100)
d20 = dice.randint(1,20)
d10 = dice.randint(1,10)
d8 = dice.randint(1,8)
d6 = dice.randint(1,6)
d4 = dice.randint(1,4)
d2 = dice.randint(1,2)
repeat = 'Y'
while repeat == 'Y' or 'y' or 'yes' or 'Yes':
roll = (input('What would you like to roll? A d100, d20, d10, d8, d6, d4, or d2?:'))
quantity = (input('How many would you like to roll?'))
quantity = int(quantity)
if roll == 'd100':
print('You rolled a: ' + str(d100 * quantity) + '!')
elif roll == 'd20':
print('You rolled a: ' + str(d20 * quantity) + '!')
elif roll == 'd10':
print('You rolled a: ' + str(d10 * quantity) + '!')
elif roll == 'd8':
print('You rolled a: ' + str(d8 * quantity) + '!')
elif roll == 'd6':
print('You rolled a: ' + str(d6 * quantity) + '!')
elif roll == 'd4':
print('You rolled a: ' + str(d4 * quantity) + '!')
elif roll == 'd2':
print('You rolled a: ' + str(d2 * quantity) + '!')
else:
print('That is not an available die! Please select a die.')
repeat = input('Would you like to continue?: ')
if repeat == 'yes' or 'Y' or 'y' or 'Yes':
continue
As of right now, despite what is input for the repeat variable it always continues even if it isn't "yes", "Y", "y", or "Yes". I'm sure the answer is simple and right in front of me but I'm stumped! Thanks in advance!
It's a problem of precedence: repeat == 'Y' or 'y' or 'yes' or 'Yes' is interpreted as (repeat == 'Y') or 'y' or 'yes' or 'Yes' and then it tries to check whether 'y' counts as true, which it does (it's a non-empty string).
What you want is while repeat in ('Y', 'y', 'yes', 'Yes'):
By the way, you don't need the if statement at the end of the loop since it will exit automatically if repeat is something other than 'Y', 'y', 'yes', or 'Yes'.