Python Forum
Odd behavior with Rock Paper Scissor game
Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Odd behavior with Rock Paper Scissor game
#1
I am following a tutorial for a rock paper scissor game and I made some changes to it to stray from the tutorial. Everything works except for the fact that sometimes the random choice doesn't appear to pick a choice and the score is not tabulated.

Here's the code I have, please help me identify what is going wrong:

import random import sys print("Rock, Paper, Scissors") wins = 0 losses = 0 ties = 0 while True: print('%s Wins, %s Losses, %s Ties' % (wins, losses, ties)) while True: playermove = input( "Enter your move: r(ock), (p)aper, (s)cissors or q(uit): ") if playermove == "q": print("Thanks for playing!") sys.exit() if playermove == "r" or playermove == "p" or playermove == "s": break else: print("Please type a valid character.") if playermove == "r": print("Rock versus...") if playermove == "S": print("Scissors versus...") if playermove == "p": print("Paper versus...") choices = ("r", "s", "P") compmove = random.choice(choices) if compmove == "r": print("Rock") elif compmove == "s": print("Scissors") elif compmove == "p": print("Paper") if playermove == compmove: print("It is a tie!") ties += 1 elif playermove == "r" and compmove == "s": print("You win!") wins += 1 elif playermove == 'p' and compmove == 'r': print('You win!') wins += 1 elif playermove == 's' and compmove == 'p': print('You win!') wins += 1 elif playermove == 'r' and compmove == 'p': print('You lose!') losses += 1 elif playermove == 'p' and compmove == 's': print('You lose!') losses += 1 elif playermove == 's' and compmove == 'r': print('You lose!') losses += 1 
Reply
#2
Comparisons are case-sensitive. On lines 25 and 30, you've used capital letters, and everywhere else lower-case. That's going to cause problems. When the computer picks "P", none of the comparisons will match, and you don't have a else condition to catch that none of the other ones matched.
Reply
#3
Thank you. Not sure how I missed that.
Reply


Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Rock paper scissors in python with "algorithm" Agat0 24 14,996 Sep-04-2025, 09:06 AM
Last Post: dr8478552
  Rock Paper Scissors Project in Python ankitdixit 8 8,567 Feb-23-2024, 03:14 PM
Last Post: DPaul
  Trying to create a visual rock paper scissors game urmom33 1 4,192 Dec-03-2022, 09:12 PM
Last Post: deanhystad
  Problem restricting user input in my rock paper scissors game ashergreen 6 7,851 Mar-25-2021, 03:54 AM
Last Post: deanhystad
  Trying to implement Best of 3 logic in rock paper scissors game ShAhCh 5 6,329 May-11-2020, 04:31 PM
Last Post: ShAhCh
  Rock Paper Scissors with dictionaries ewgreht 2 5,940 May-01-2020, 03:19 PM
Last Post: deanhystad
  Rock, Paper, Scissors.. Help..hidden bug xxunknownxx 4 4,324 Mar-19-2020, 02:46 AM
Last Post: jefsummers
  Problem with Basic Rock Paper Scissors code BirinderSingh 3 4,571 Sep-13-2019, 03:28 PM
Last Post: ichabod801
  Rock, Paper, Scissors Help jyou99 1 3,492 Mar-26-2018, 04:07 PM
Last Post: nilamo
  Rock Paper Scissors (Need help) Lukili 1 3,385 Jan-14-2018, 10:00 PM
Last Post: Gribouillis

User Panel Messages

Announcements
Announcement #1 8/1/2020
Announcement #2 8/2/2020
Announcement #3 8/6/2020
This forum uses Lukasz Tkacz MyBB addons.
Forum use Krzysztof "Supryk" Supryczynski addons.