I need some help with code in a text based game I am trying to make. My game uses health, and the code starts off with "while health>0:", and in another point in the game, when health eventually =0, the loop still continues. How do I make the loop end when health=0, without finishing the whole loop.
Here is an example:
health=100
while health>0:
print("You got attacked")
health=0
print("test")
Should the code not be stopping when health=0, and not print "test"? How to I get it to stop when health=0? The code I wrote deducts health based on the users actions, so the times when health=0 can vary. I want to end the code whenever health=0 Any help would be appreciated.
The condition is only evaluated at the start of each iteration. It does not get checked in the middle of an iteration (e.g. as soon as you set to health
to zero).
To explicitly exit the loop, use break
:
while health>0:
...
if some_condition:
break
...
The break
statement, like in C, breaks out of the smallest enclosing for
or while
loop.
You should use 'break' statement to come out of the loop
health=100
while health>0:
print("You got attacked")
# decrement the variable according to your requirement inside the loop
health=health-1
if health==0:
break
print("test")
Cleaner implementation
health = 100
while True:
if (health <= 0): break
print ("You got attacked!")
health = 0
print ("Testing!")
Outputs:
You got attacked!
Testing!