Re: Rock Paper Scissors Code Bug?

On 12/18/25 06:13, Thomas Passin wrote:
> On 12/17/2025 10:43 PM, Gregg Drennan via Python-list wrote:
>> The other recommendation i would make is to shorten the response the 
>> player
>> needs to give when choosing their option.  "R", "P", "S" is sufficient to
>> determine the player's choice.  Making the player enter the whole word
>> introduces opportunity for misspellings.  I would also allow the 
>> player to
>> enter "Q" in case they decide to stop playing.  And always check to make
>> sure the player entered something and didn't just hit enter.  Also don't
>> use .lower() until you check to make sure you have a valid entry, the
>> player might enter a character that can't be converted to lower case, 
>> like
>> a number or punctuation.
> 
> See, here's the problem with relying on a chatbot. Calling lower() works 
> fine for a character that doesn't have a lowerclass version.  It just 
> returns the original.
casefold() is more reliable for comparisons for non-ASCII characters. 
Since the set of acceptable strings appears to be bounded, that's 
perhaps an unnecessary detail here.
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