"""gives the user a list of choices to answer. Choices must have different first chars"""

while True:

print(msg)

print("Please type one of those answers (without the quotes) and press ENTER:")

print(choices)

print("or")

firstchars = []

# see if there are choices larger than one char

maxlength = 1

for item in choices:

if len(item) > maxlength:

maxlength = len(item)

if maxlength > 1:

for item in choices:

firstchars.append(item[0])

print( tuple(firstchars))

answer = input(">")

if answer in choices or answer in firstchars:

break

msg = "\n"

msg += "\n*** Welcome !***"

msg += "\nplease choose between a classic game of 'rock, paper, scissors'"

msg += "\nor a game of the newer variant 'rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock' "

msg += "\n"

msg += "\nsee Wikipedia for game rules and more information:"

msg += "\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_paper_scissors"

msg += "\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock"

msg += "\n"

#output(msg)

mode = ask(msg + "press c for classic variant (rock, paper, scissors) \n" \

"press n for new variant (rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock \n", ["classic","new"])

if mode == "c":

game("classic")

elif mode == "n":

"""rock paper scissor lizard spock

# { key: human-readable key description }

things = {"r":"rock",

"s":"scissors",

"p":"paper"}

if mode == "new": # expand only for new version

things["l"] = "lizard"

things["m"] = "mister Spock"

# { victor : { victim : (victorytext loosertext) }}

wintext = {

"r": { "s": ("rock crushes scissors", "scissors is crushed by rock"),

"l": ("rock crushes lizard", "lizard is crushed by rock")},

"s": { "p": ("scissors cut paper", "paper is cut by scissors"),

"l": ("scissors decapitate lizard", "lizard is decapitated by scissors")},

"p": { "o": ("paper disproves mister Spock", "mister Spock is disproved by paper"),

"r": ("paper covers rock", "rock is enveloped by paper") },

"m": { "s": ("mister Spock smashes scissors", "scissors are smashed by mister Spock"),

"r": ("mister Spock vaporizes rock", "rock is vaporized by mister Spock") },

"l": { "p": ("lizard eats paper", "paper is eaten by lizard"),

"o": ("lizard poisons Spock", "Spock is poisoned by lizard") }

}

#question = "What do you play ? \n"

#for thingy in things.keys():

# question += thingy + ": " + things[thingy] + "\n"

#question += "\n please press one of the keys listed above and ENTER \n"

mainloop = True

rounds = 0

# ------ generating players --------

players = {} # name, nature, thing, points # a dict cointaining dicts ...

while True:

msg = "At the moment, this game has %i players. Minimum to start a game is 2 players. \n" % len(players)

if len(players.keys()) > 0:

msg += "-- list of players in the game --\n"

for player in players.keys():

msg += "name: %s type: %s \n" % (player, players[player]["nature"])

msg += "----\n"

playername = askname(msg + "please type in the name of a new player and press ENTER \n"

"press only ENTER to start the game \n")

if playername == "":

break # exit

natureOfPlayer = ask("is this player %s a human or a computer ?" % playername, ["human","computer"])

players[playername] = {"nature": natureOfPlayer , "thing": "xxx", "points":0 } # add player to dictionary

if len(players) < 2:

output( "you need at least 2 players to start a game. Bye !")

return "too few players"

while mainloop: # ----------- the game loop ------------

output( " ---- rounds played: %i ----- \n" % rounds )

for player in players.keys():

if players[player]["nature"] == "h": # human

playerthing = ""

msg = "******** player %s, it is your turn ! ******* \n" % player

playerthing = ask(msg + "What do you play ? \n", tuple(things.values())) # asking the player for rock, paper etc..

players[player]["thing"] = playerthing # adding answer to dict (inside a dict)

else: # computer player

players[player]["thing"] = random.choice(tuple(things.keys())) # computerthing

rounds += 1

msg = ""

for player in players.keys(): # --- output ----

playerthing = players[player]["thing"]

msg += "The coice of player %s is: %s \n" % (player, playerthing)

for player in players.keys(): # ---- calculate winner

msg += "...calculating points for player %s...\n" % player

playerthing = players[player]["thing"]

for enemy in players.keys():

if player != enemy:

enemything = players[enemy]["thing"]

msg += "%s of %s versus %s of %s \n" % (things[playerthing], player, things[enemything], enemy)

if playerthing == enemything:

msg += "this is a draw (0 points) \n"

elif enemything in wintext[playerthing].keys():

players[player]["points"] += 1

msg += "%s (+1 point) \n" % wintext[playerthing][enemything][0] # victory

else:

msg += "%s (no point) \n" % wintext[enemything][playerthing][1] # loose

msg += "====== result (round %i) =======\n" % rounds #------ summary -------

for player in players.keys():

msg+= "points: %i for %s \n" %( players[player]["points"], player)

msg += "------ next round -------\n\n"

playMore = ask(msg+"continue or quit ?", ["continue","quit"])

if playMore == "q":

mainloop = False

#print "\n\n\n" # three empty lines

output("bye-bye")