I've created a mastermind game as part of a lead-up to some coursework later this year, and i'm looking to be able to print the high score and the name of the person it belongs to whenever a person wins the game. I've successfully been able to save pairs of the username entered and their score, but my attempts at printing the high score haven't been. This is all the code i've done so far, i do apologise if anything i've written is completely and utterly wrong or inefficient, i'm fairly new to python.
from random import randrange
import time
import operator
guesses=0
score=0
totaltime=0
correctlist=[]
nonexactscore=0
#Initiates variables
print("Enter a username")
while 1==1:
username=input()
namelist=list(username)
if " " not in namelist:
username=username.upper()
break
else:
print("Cannot enter spaces in your username")
print("Enter difficulty- 'EASY' , 'NORMAL' or 'HARD")
while 1==1:
difficulty=input()
if difficulty == "EASY" or difficulty == "NORMAL" or difficulty == "HARD":
break
else:
print("Invalid input")
#Waits for user input to be valid (EASY , NORMAL or HARD)
if difficulty=="HARD":
Numberlength=5
#Sets the length of the number to be guessed to 5 if the difficulty = hard
else:
Numberlength=4
#Otherwise sets the length of the number to be guessed to the normal length of 4
for n in range(0,Numberlength):
correctlist.append(str(randrange(0,9)))
#Creates a list of length Numberlength made from a sequence of random numbers (In string format)
while score != Numberlength:
#Continuously asks for the guess while it is incorrect (For it to be correct, the score must = the numberlength)
temptime=0
nonexactscore=0
score=0
guess=0
print("enter guess")
print(correctlist) #For debugging
temptime=int(time.time())
#initiates the timer
while 1==1:
guess=str(input())
if len(guess)==Numberlength and guess.isdigit():
break
#Validates input
else:
print("Invalid input")
for n in range(0,Numberlength):
if guess[n]==correctlist[n]:
score+=1
#Increments score variable if pairs of numbers in the guess list and the correct list match
if difficulty == "EASY":
print("You got a match in place " + str(n+1))
#Prints the position of the correct guess if the difficulty = easy
if guess[n] in correctlist and guess[n] != correctlist[n]:
nonexactscore += 1
#Increments non-exact score variable if the guess appears in the correctlist but isn't an exact match
print("Number of exact matches: " + str(score) + " Number of non-exact matches: " + str(nonexactscore) )
#Prints your score and non-exact score
if score != Numberlength:
print("Incorrect, try again!")
guesses+=1
#Increments guesses variable every time you make an incorrect guess
totaltime+=int(time.time())-temptime
#Adds the time taken for an individual guess to the totaltime
else:
print("Guesses: " + str(guesses))
print("You win!")
print("You took " + str(totaltime) + " Seconds! ")
totalscore=int(1000*(1/(float(totaltime*guesses))))
print("Score for comparison:" + str(totalscore))
with open("mastermindscores.txt","a") as f:
f.write(username + " " + str(totalscore)+ "\n")
with open("mastermindscores.txt","r") as k:
scoredict={}
for line in k:
key,val = line.split(" ")
scoredict[key]=val
print(scoredict) #for debugging
print("High score: " + max(scoredict) + " " + str(scoredict.get(max(scoredict))))
#Prints information about your victory
This code results in the txt file looking something like this:
NAME 1000
OTHERNAME 10000
ANOTHERNAME 100000
And i'm looking for the program to print "High score: ANOTHERNAME 100000" but at the moment I can't quite work out how it's deciding which name it's printing (Because after a few games, it doesn't print the high score)
Any suggestions for the coding or any improvements i could make to the program would greatly be appreciated, thanks.
Also, if you need any more clarifications, i'll be looking at this post for a couple of hours or so.
