Mini-project - Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock

Mini-project - Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock#

# The key idea of this program is to equate the strings
# "rock", "paper", "scissors", "lizard", "Spock" to numbers
# as follows:
#
# 0 - rock
# 1 - Spock
# 2 - paper
# 3 - lizard
# 4 - scissors

# helper functions

def name_to_number(name):
    # convert name to number using if/elif/else
    # don't forget to return the result!
    if name == 'rock':
        return 0
    elif name == 'Spock':
        return 1
    elif name == 'paper':
        return 2
    elif name == 'lizard':
        return 3
    elif name == 'scissors':
        return 4
    else:
        print('Name not recognized')


def number_to_name(number):
    # convert number to a name using if/elif/else
    # don't forget to return the result!
    if number == 0:
        return 'rock'
    elif number == 1:
        return 'Spock'
    elif number == 2:
        return 'paper'
    elif number == 3:
        return 'lizard'
    elif number == 4:
        return 'scissors'
    else:
        print('Number not recognized')


def paper(player_choice):
    # print a blank line to separate consecutive games
    print()
    # print out the message for the player's choice
    print('Player chooses', player_choice)
    # convert the player's choice to player_number using the function
    # name_to_number()
    player_number = name_to_number(player_choice)

    # compute random guess for comp_number using random.randrange()
    import random
    comp_number = random.randrange(0, 5)

    # convert comp_number to comp_choice using the function number_to_name()
    comp_choice = number_to_name(comp_number)

    # print out the message for computer's choice
    print('Computer chooses', comp_choice)

    # compute difference of comp_number and player_number modulo five
    diff_comp_player = (comp_number - player_number) % 5

    # use if/elif/else to determine winner, print winner message
    if diff_comp_player == 0:
        print('Player and computer tie!')
    elif diff_comp_player <= 2:
        print('Computer wins!')
    else:
        print('Player wins!')


# test your code - THESE CALLS MUST BE PRESENT IN YOUR SUBMITTED CODE
paper("rock")
paper("Spock")
paper("paper")
paper("lizard")
paper("scissors")

# always remember to check your completed program against the grading rubric