Beginner Loop question

[BigDisAok]

Hi,

So I am writing a very basic text based game, and have put a loop withing a loop for depending upon which game branch I go down. I was wondering how I can break out of both loops, or perhaps the code I have written is a bad way to do this. (I have simplified my code to give you up to where I want to break.

Many thanks!!

def game():
    print("Welcome to the game.")
    print("You see a robber in the courtyard. What do you want to do?\n")

attack = ["scream","shout","attack","hit","punch","kick"]

while True:
    game()

    courtyard_decision = input(">>").lower().split()



    if set(courtyard_decision) & set(attack):
        print("You have decided to get into a fight with the Robber")
        while True:
            print("""The robber dodges your first attack.
            He then throws a punch and you slip to the left.
            Would you like to throw a left or right hook?""")
            fight = input(">>>").lower().split()
            if "left" in fight or "right" in fight:
                print("Your hook hits the robber and you have completed the game!")
                break

[perfringo]

Non-pythonic quick fix is to set a variable:

proceed = True
while proceed:
            print("""The robber dodges your first attack.
            He then throws a punch and you slip to the left.
            Would you like to throw a left or right hook?""")
            fight = input(">>>").lower().split()
            if "left" in fight or "right" in fight:
                print("Your hook hits the robber and you have completed the game!")
                proceed = False
                break

Correct way is to write function for first loop and in second loop deal only with results of said function.

[BigDisAok]

Thanks for your reply, but this does not seem to work for me. Its returns me to the first loop when I want to be breaking from them both.

[perfringo]

Thanks for your reply, but this does not seem to work for me. Its returns me to the first loop when I want to be breaking from them both.

Mea culpa! I was not focused enough. If you put it before first while loop it should work. Second while loop is exited by break

[buran]

a useful read before you dive in the if/else nightmare text adventure game
https://python-forum.io/Thread-Text-Adve...dictionary

[BigDisAok]

Buran, thanks for the link. Interesting read as creating dictionary's will be needed to shorten my programming required!! Will put this on my to learn list :)

and thanks perfringo, that works perfectly for leaving both loops. Exactly what I wanted!

:)