🔒 Sorting Hat Program

[worn narwhal]

I was attempting to make the code return an error if the incorrect value was entered as an answer, then ask the question again. I then realised it just jumped to the next question and i have no clue how to make it re-ask the question

[hollow salmon]

@worn narwhal

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[worn narwhal]

oh it said no images

uhh mb

patient = input("Would you describe yourself as being patient?: ").lower()
if patient=="yes":
hufflepuff = hufflepuff + 1
elif patient=="no":
slytherin = slytherin + 1
else:
print("Invalid input. Please enter yes or no.")

[hollow salmon]

Hey @worn narwhal!

Please edit your message to use a code block

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```

[worn narwhal]

oh what

cool

'''py
patient = input("Would you describe yourself as being patient?: ").lower()
if patient=="yes":
hufflepuff = hufflepuff + 1
elif patient=="no":
slytherin = slytherin + 1
else:
print("Invalid input. Please enter yes or no.")
'''

huh

[tired elbow]

its

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not '

[worn narwhal]

oh

[tired elbow]

beside the num 1 key

[worn narwhal]

`

coolty

patient = input("Would you describe yourself as being patient?: ").lower()
if patient=="yes":
  hufflepuff = hufflepuff + 1 
elif patient=="no":
  slytherin = slytherin + 1 
else:
    print("Invalid input. Please enter yes or no.")

WHOA

awesome

anyways

how can i make it reask the question

[tired elbow]

you need a loop

[worn narwhal]

and a break under the if and elif

[tired elbow]

yes

[worn narwhal]

ew

okok

that seems unecessarily long

but ok

[tired elbow]

you could write a function for it

[worn narwhal]

thanks

okok

[tired elbow]

you should

[worn narwhal]

lol

[tired elbow]

"dry" code is good code

"Don't Repeat Yourself"

[worn narwhal]

okok thanks

[shell flax]

This: slytherin = slytherin + 1
can be written: slytherin += 1
which avoids repeating the variable name.

[worn narwhal]

yeah i realised that after i wrote the first few

so i js went with it

fixedd

[shell flax]

Probably worth writing a yesno(prompt) function which issues the prompt using input(), checks for a yes/no and returns True or False accordingly, and complains for other inputs (and maybe asks again, and again).

[worn narwhal]

well

[shell flax]

Then you can go:

if yesno("Would you describe yourself as patient?: "):
    hufflepuff += 1
else:
    slytherin += 1

[worn narwhal]

i wrote the code, it works how i want it to, its 110 lines somy teacher will count it so i should be alr

ohhh

thats

yeah

i think the teacher will complain if i start using stuff that we have not learnt yet

[shell flax]

This is why functions are nice. You can put that same repeated ogic in one .

Maybe so.

[worn narwhal]

he complained when i used if statements in the first unit

but thank you for your help

[hollow salmon]

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