A little help tweaking the my code
 

Hi guys,

I have a friend at school and she's taken Unix 2. She gave me a copy of her work assignment so that I could improve my scripting skills (Still a begginner at python and programming).

This is the assignment:

Write a script that will prompt the user to input a number between 1 and 10.

You need to output:

1. The number they entered, with an explanation of what the number is.
2. The square of the inputted number.

Conditions:

1. You must check that the number is between 1 and 10, if not, clear the screen ask the user agian.

2. You must have an exit for the user, other than entering a number.

3. Use at least one sub function.


Ok so that it!

And this is what I made so far:

  1 #! /usr/bin/python

      2 #

      3 # 1 and 10

      4

      5 import os

      6 import sys

      7

      8 number = ""

      9 while number > 0:

     10         number = int(raw_input("\n\nChoose a number between 1 and 10: "))

     11         print "This is the number you choosed", number

     12         print " Square root of the number is",

     13         print number * number

     14

     15         if number == 0:

     16                 print "\nThis needs to be a bigger number."

     17         elif number > 10:

     18                 os.system("clear")

     19                 print "Opps!"

     20

     21 raw_input("\n\nTo exit program press the enter key.  ")

The problem with the code is that it loops the way I wanted; but it won't exit out of the loop.
I know its something simple, but i'm not seeing is yet...

Re: A little help tweaking the my code
 

This is something similar to what you coded. I didn't use the 'clear the screen' thingy because that would make it OS specific, and our instructor says that it is better to leave a record on the screen anyway.

#! /usr/bin/python



def check_range(n, low, high):

    return (low <= n <= high)



# use an endless loop and a condition to break out of it

while True:

    s = raw_input("Enter a number between 1 and 10 (q to quit): ")

    if s == 'q':

        break

    n = int(s)

    # check range 1 to 10 inclusive

    if check_range(n, 1, 10):

        print "you entered", n

        print "the square is", n*n

    else:

        print "not in range, try again ..."

Re: A little help tweaking the my code
 

Nice clean code there Lardmeister. Did you switch from C# to Python?

Re: A little help tweaking the my code
 

That is clean code!

I guest i needed to add some comments.
But hey, thanks for the help.