🔒 Chess Opening Picker Not Working

[white wadi]

Hi, it's mainly a practice project, and I want to figure out what the problem is.

[hard tundra]

@white wadi

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[white wadi]

import random

whiteopening = ["Vienna", "King's Indian Defense", "London", "Italian"]

blackopening = ["Scandi or King's Indian", "Caro or Slav", "French or Queens Pawn"]

whiterandom = random.randint(0,4)

blackrandom = random.randint(0,3)

if input("White"):
 print(whiteopening[whiterandom])

if input("Black"):
 print(blackopening[blackrandom])```

for some reason, this just generates "Black" and then "White" instead of waiting for input.

[whole depot]

!e

import random

whiteopening = ["Vienna", "King's Indian Defense", "London", "Italian"]
blackopening = ["Scandi or King's Indian", "Caro or Slav", "French or Queens Pawn"]

whiterandom = random.randint(0,4)
blackrandom = random.randint(0,3)

print(whiteopening[whiterandom])
print(blackopening[blackrandom])

[hard tundra]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.13 eval job has completed with return code 0.

001 | King's Indian Defense
002 | Caro or Slav

[white wadi]

I do intend it to respond to input

so if I end up in a white game, I type "White" into terminal, and it spits out a white one specifically

[whole depot]

right, I'm running it locally with input and it's working, except for a different error

[white wadi]

what's the error?

[whole depot]

that's not how it works. input(x) doesn't check to see if the user enters x. it prints x, and then returns whatever text the user enters.

[white wadi]

oh mbmb

[whole depot]

can you think of how you can change it to fix this?

[white wadi]

lemmie check something really quick

import random

whiteopening = ["Vienna", "King's Indian Defense", "London", "Italian"]

blackopening = ["Scandi or King's Indian", "Caro or Slav", "French or Queens Pawn"]

whiterandom = random.randint(0,4)

blackrandom = random.randint(0,3)

putting = input()

if putting == "White":
    print(whiteopening[whiterandom])

if putting == "Black":
    print(blackopening[blackrandom])```

this worked!

import random

whiteopening = ["Vienna", "King's Indian Defense", "London", "Italian"]

blackopening = ["Scandi or King's Indian", "Caro or Slav", "French or Queens Pawn"]

whiterandom = random.randint(0,4)

blackrandom = random.randint(0,3)

putting = input("White or Black? Use proper capitalization!\n")

if putting == "White":
    print(whiteopening[whiterandom])

if putting == "Black":
    print(blackopening[blackrandom])```

fancied it up a little

[muted ridge]

import random

whiteopening = ["Vienna", "King's Indian Defense", "London", "Italian"]

blackopening = ["Scandi or King's Indian", "Caro or Slav", "French or Queens Pawn"]

while True:
    putting = input().strip().lower()
    if putting == "white":
        openings = whiteopening
    elif putting == "black":
        opening = blackopening
    else:
        continue

    i = random.randint(0, len(opening))
    print(opening[i])
    break

This also reprompts if user inputs something different

[white wadi]

Oh, nice!

tyty

[muted ridge]

You're welcome 🤗

[muted ridge]

Don't do this

whiterandom = random.randint(0, 4)

instead do this

whiterandom = random.randint(0, len(whiteopening))

So that when you add another opening to the list ..

.. you don't have to remember to update anything else

[lime depot]

i = random.randint(0, len(opening))
opening[i]
or random.choice(opening)

[hard tundra]

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