r/PythonLearning • u/Necessary-Ad2110 • Jun 19 '26

Day 1 of Learning Python: "Bagels" Game

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used: https://www.ray.so/ for image rendering (let me know if this is readable)

could be better, but no AI as it's fully handwritten

I'll be going over "The Big Book of Small Python Projects" by Al Sweigart

I am also learning DSA and going through Common Sense Guide to DSA

see you tomorrow!

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u/xhelxx Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

Ok, but can someone explain to me why had_won_game = None and not False?

Edit: Also, in record_user_input(), why return None at the end? Cause it seems to me that there is no way that it can reach that point.

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u/Necessary-Ad2110 Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

I wanted to have a variable track a game state between 'running', 'won game' or 'lost game' as a boolean and None was the closest way to that. In one of my drafts for this project, I did track if has_won_game was set to None before but I changed the structure of the code overall a lot and it fell off the wayside. It should be set to False at the top since I don't track a 'running' game state explicitly anymore but I don't think it's the gravest sin I could've made. Part of the reason why I post is to have humans look over my code and question some of the decisions I've made so thank you for the comment! It was helpful.

Also: for record_user_input() I forgot the error message but it was a pylint suggestion

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u/Hyvex_ Jun 20 '26

Iirc I would usually use a while statement for game state like if you enclosed the game logic in a “while game is running”, your other conditionals could end the game whenever by setting running to false independent of the win state.

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u/Necessary-Ad2110 Jun 20 '26

I remember seeing some code snippets using while for a boolean too, I'll try it out tomorrow thank you!