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Python Projects for Kids

You're reading from   Python Projects for Kids Unleash Python and take your small readers on an adventurous ride through the world of programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782175063
Length 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jessica Ingrassellino Jessica Ingrassellino
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Welcome! Let's Get Started 2. Variables, Functions, and Users FREE CHAPTER 3. Calculate This! 4. Making Decisions – Python Control Flows 5. Loops and Logic 6. Working with Data – Lists and Dictionaries 7. What's in Your Backpack? 8. pygame 9. Tiny Tennis 10. Keep Coding! A. Quick Task Answers Index

Limiting items in a virtual backpack


To make sure that we only add four items to each virtual backpack, we are using another for loop (inside our first for loop). The inside loop says for item in range(4). This means for each item out of four items, do all the things in the loop. In our backpack loop, this means that we will enter items 0, 1, 2, and 3 into the backpack using the raw_input() function.

In the players[i]backpack dictionary, we append (add) items to the list inside of the backpack by using append(backpack_item). Because we want four items, our for loop runs four times after asking for the name and items of the player. When this backpack_item code finishes running, the entire player loop will begin again, asking for the name and items for the second player. In this process, we get the information we need to fill out the player profiles that are stored in the dictionaries of player 1 and player 2:

To review, when you run your code, you should expect to see the following:

  1. Create a...

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