Need help with programming in python for class (beginner level)

farhanken · Nov 30, 2013

It's for a school assignment. Basically, I need to roll 5 dies with 6 sideseach. So basically, 6 random numbers. That part is easy. Then I need to add it up. Ok, done that. However, I also need to say something along the lines of "your total number was X". That's what I'm having trouble with. I added the dice rolls together and put them into a variable I called "number" but it seems to glitch out that variable is in any command other than "printnumber". Like, if I try to write:

print "your total number was:" number ""

It just doesn't work.

Here is my code so far:

import cgi

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
name = form.getvalue("name")
value = form.getvalue("value")

print """Content-type: text/html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html><head>
<title>A CGI Script</title>
</head><body>
"""
import random

die1 = random.randint(1,6)
die2 = random.randint(1,6)
die3 = random.randint(1,6)
die4 = random.randint(1,6)
die5 = random.randint(1,6)
print die1, die2, die3, die4, die5
number = die1 + die2 + die3 + die4 + die5
print "The total rolled was: "number" "

print "Thanks for playing, " + name + "."
print "You bet the total would be at least " + value + "."
print "</body></html>"

Johannes Findeisen · Nov 30, 2013

On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:31:21 -0800 (PST)

print "The total rolled was: "number" "

The above line is wrong. You did it right below:

print "Thanks for playing, " + name + "."
print "You bet the total would be at least " + value + "."

Do this:

print "The total rolled was: " + number + " "

Regards,
Johannes

Johannes Findeisen · Nov 30, 2013

On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:31:21 -0800 (PST)

The above line is wrong. You did it right below:

Do this:

print "The total rolled was: " + number + " "

Sorry, that was wrong! You need to convert to a string when
concatenating...

print "The total rolled was: " + str(number) + " "

Tim Chase · Nov 30, 2013

It's for a school assignment.

Thanks for the honesty--you'll get far more helpful & useful replies
because of that.

put them into a variable I called "number" but it seems to glitch
out that variable is in any command other than "print number".
Like, if I try to write:

print "your total number was:" number ""

It just doesn't work.

You're so close. Python doesn't let you directly combine strings and
numbers like that, especially without any operator. However it does
offer several ways to combine strings:

print "convert to string and use " + str(number) + " a '+' operator"
print "use %s classic C-style formatting" % number
print "use new {} formatting style".format(number)

-tkc

Mark Lawrence · Nov 30, 2013

Sorry, that was wrong! You need to convert to a string when
concatenating...

print "The total rolled was: " + str(number) + " "

Wrong again, or at least overengineered.

print "The total rolled was:", number, "

You don't even need the spaces as print kindly does it for you

Tim Chase · Nov 30, 2013

Wrong again, or at least overengineered.

print "The total rolled was:", number, " ^

You don't even need the spaces as print kindly does it for you

but you could at least include the missing quotation mark ;-)

-tkc

Johannes Findeisen · Nov 30, 2013

It's way past my bedtime

Same to me... I should get more sleep before answering.

Anyway, Thank you for the explanation of this.

Sleep well...

Johannes

Julio Schwarzbeck · Dec 2, 2013

It's for a school assignment. Basically, I need to roll 5 dies with 6 sides each. So basically, 6 random numbers. That part is easy. Then I need to add it up. Ok, done that. However, I also need to say something along the lines of "your total number was X". That's what I'm having trouble with. I added the dice rolls together and put them into a variable I called "number" but it seems to glitch out that variable is in any command other than "print number". Like, if I try to write:

print "your total number was:" number ""

It just doesn't work.

Here is my code so far:

import cgi

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
name = form.getvalue("name")
value = form.getvalue("value")

print """Content-type: text/html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html><head>
<title>A CGI Script</title>
</head><body>
"""
import random

die1 = random.randint(1,6)
die2 = random.randint(1,6)
die3 = random.randint(1,6)
die4 = random.randint(1,6)
die5 = random.randint(1,6)
print die1, die2, die3, die4, die5
number = die1 + die2 + die3 + die4 + die5
print "The total rolled was: "number" "

print "Thanks for playing, " + name + "."
print "You bet the total would be at least " + value + "."
print "</body></html>"

My two "favorites":

print 'The total rolled was: %s ' % number
[py 2.7+] print('The total rolled was: {} '.format(number))

Cheers,

-- Speedbird

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Need help with programming in python for class (beginner level)

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