first time posting here on Stackoverflow. I am currently learning python and am trying to make a simple game where the player will be shown a random 2 decimal place number and have to add up to 10. I want the game to only last 30 seconds, hence I added a clock function as well.
However, I am facing some troubles running both the clock and the game together at the same time. I have tried using threading but sadly it didn't work out. Appreciate all the help I can get!
import random
import time
import threading
number = 10.0
print("Sum up to 10!")
def game():
global score
score = 0
while True:
question = round(random.uniform(0.01, 9.99), 2)
while True:
print("\nYour number is: " + str(question))
try:
answer = float(input("\nAnswer: "))
if question + answer != number:
print("\nWrong answer! Try again!")
elif answer + question == number:
score += 1
print("\nCorrect!")
break
except ValueError:
print("Please key in a number(2 decimals)!")
def clock(countdown=0):
while countdown > 0:
time.sleep(1)
countdown -= 1
print("\rTime Left: " + str(countdown), end="")
if countdown == 0:
print("Final score: " + str(score))
quit()
clock_thread = threading.Thread(target=clock(31))
game_thread = threading.Thread(target=game())
clock_thread.start()
game_thread.start()
Your problem is probably on that line
clock_thread = threading.Thread(target=clock(31))
What you are doing right now is launching the function cloack with the argument 31, what you want to do is give a pointer to the function lock, and then give the argument 31
so you'd need to do something like that:
clock_thread = threading.Thread(target=clock, args=(31,))
args is a keyword same as target leading to the arguments you wanna give to the function(note that it has to be a tuple, ence why I wrote (31,)), and note that I didn't put the "()" after clock because I'm giving a pointer to the function clock, not launching the function clock
same, game_thread = threading.Thread(target=game()) becomes:
game_thread = threading.Thread(target=game) for the same reasons