On Feb 5, 3:29 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I am very knew to python and am attempting to write a program > > in python that a friend of mine is having to write in java. I am doing > > this for fun and would like some help as to how i can generate random > > coordinate points (x,y) and compare them with user inputted coordinate > > points. For example how will I be able to access the separate values, > > the x from the x,y position. I think I understand everything except > > 1)the random coordinate points 2) the getting the users inputted x and > > y values in one line ("Please guess a coordinate point from (1,1) to > > (20,20): ") as opposed to ("Please enter an x value:" and "Please > > enter a y value") and finally 3) acessing the x value from the x,y > > coordinate function. the assignment description is located here http:// > >www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/142/07wi/homework/ > > homework.html if you would like to see a more in depth discription of > > the game. > > > Many Thanks, > > Eric > > For 1: see the random module (e.g. random.randint) > For 2: see the "eval" function and "raw input" > For 2 (without cheating): see the re module. For example: > ***************************************************************************** > ***map(int, re.compile("\(?(\d+),(\d+)\)?").search(inpt).groups())**** > ***************************************************************************** > (Giving you the latter because eval will do this for you anyway.) > > Also see "raw_input". > > James
Thank you very much for your response i will play around with the code when I have some time ( hopefully later tonight) but could you please breakdown what the part that I surrounded with asterisks, I think I recognize it but don't understand it. Eric -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list