flag in while loop issue

[spiral kiln]

whats the actual problem?

[true orbit]

everything works except the else

[spiral kiln]

you are comparing

flag == False

i assume u want to asign

instead

[true orbit]

is the == in the while the issue

[spiral kiln]

yeah i guess

[true orbit]

ill see

[spiral kiln]

the rest looks fine to me 👍
although i dont code in python that often anyore

[true orbit]

i want it to loop back to beginning

this is my issue

changed the == still doing it

[spiral kiln]

i think maybe you should use a function instead

[true orbit]

how so

i just thought using a flag was the easiest way to loop it]

[spiral kiln]

nvm yeah ur right

can i see your edited code please?

[true orbit]

here it is

wait

yeah that right

changed the == on the flag

cannot do that for the beginning

should i use for instead>?

[spiral kiln]

honestly im pretty confused what ur tryna do

ur code is also poorly indented, but thats a seperate issue

[true orbit]

i am making a hangman game. i wanted this introdction to loop

as a start to the game

[true orbit]

this does not work ofcourse

[spiral kiln]

ohhhh right

what do you type for the input?

[true orbit]

yes or no

if its not either i want it to print error message and loop to beginning

everything else works

[whole yarrow]

Just as a tip, random.randint() takes two parameters, start and stop, which are both integers

[true orbit]

thanks:) gonna do my research on that later after this is fixed i know where to go when i struggle haha

[whole yarrow]

randint() is used to return an integer between the start and stop parameters, if you want it to select a word, you'd use choice() with a list

[true orbit]

ah thank you

[whole yarrow]

And, to make things easier, could you use codeblocks and copypaste the code instead of screenshots?

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[true orbit]

""py
beginning = input("welcome to hangman! would you like to play? ")

flag = True

while flag == True:

if beginning == ("no"):
exit()
elif beginning == ("yes"):
flag = False
else:
flag = True
print ("incorrect answer. please use yes or no")
""

thanks for being patient with me im not the smarted coder so far

[whole yarrow]

I tried running that code with an online compiler, and it works perfectly

[true orbit]

hahah

what the hell

[true orbit]

oh i think we have the wrong idea

this is just for the beginning of the code in the menu

to either start or not start the game

[whole yarrow]

So you want it to keep asking for the input to be either yes or no?

[true orbit]

thats why i said i think im getting a bit ahead of myself. i just wanted to warm myself back up to it

[true orbit]

yes

[whole yarrow]

Move the input into the while loop

[true orbit]

fixed

what a simple fix